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Ukrainian IT outsourcers are changing their business model — and this is already being felt in the labor market, Forbes Ukraine has investigated. In particular, SoftServe is hiring fewer juniors, Ciklum and Capgemini are going beyond classic development, and Sigma Software has even launched a cofounding direction. The common denominator is that AI has changed not only the tools, but also the very logic of why clients pay IT companies.

«Most companies, when they scale, increase marketing and sales. But they don’t scale processes and standards. And that’s what’s critical. If you don’t scale quality standards as you grow, the company will simply multiply chaos upon chaos.» This column is about how to grow without losing quality, why standards are more important than scaling rates, and what role the CEO’s control and personal responsibility play in this.

Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing the way programmers work. According to GitHub, developers who use AI assistants like Copilot can write code up to 55% faster than without them. But with these new capabilities comes a new question: what will the role of the engineer be as machines learn to perform more and more technical tasks. dev.ua asked the tech leaders of several Ukrainian IT companies: What would they do over the next 12 months if they were ordinary engineers without management positions today, so as not to fall out of the market? Here’s what they advise.