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In the spring of 2024, an American woman and a Ukrainian man were arrested in the United States for helping North Korean IT workers get remote work at over 300 American companies, including Fortune 500 companies. Last week, the court sentenced the woman to prison and a fine. Although the evidence suggests that the woman was aware of the illegality of her actions, she says that she is “not the kind of person who wants to harm anyone.”

A Gen X IT professional planned to earn $800,000 this year by working 6 jobs simultaneously. To cope with the workload, he hired freelancers from all over the world. But his carefully crafted strategy collapsed after the IT professional lost 4 jobs. However, the IT professional did not give up and set an even more ambitious goal for himself - to earn almost $1 million.

Unfortunately, most Ukrainian companies still do not integrate their 1st party data with advertising cabinets. This is especially true for Google Ads. And the point is not in the size of the business: sometimes medium or small businesses build integrations faster than large companies, where they need to coordinate with security departments and prove that data transfer is secure. Yes, there is a trend — businesses are starting to understand more that the effectiveness of performance advertising depends on the quality of data that the algorithms receive and, for example, are starting to integrate conversions from deeper stages of the funnel or transfer offline conversions. But globally — there are still very few integrations, and this is a loss of opportunity.

Ukrainian IT companies have been complaining for several years about the difficulties in attracting customers due to the war. Customers are taking into account military risks and the possibility of uninterrupted work. Artificial intelligence is also gradually replacing entire teams from the market. Understanding this problem, developers with over 15 years of experience, Kyrylo Kozak and Vitaliy Drozhdin, have found a solution that helps companies find customers. They created the Getmany AI assistant, which automates the routine of searching for projects and significantly saves IT teams time, increasing their overall productivity. Currently, it is already used by Kyivstar and another one and a half hundred agencies that provide services on the Upwork platform. dev.ua tells how the Getmany service works, which the founders call AI-Copilot for Upwork.

Programming with AI tools continues to conquer the world of information technology. It seems that anyone can write code today - you just need to master a tool that allows you to do so. The most common platforms that help those who do not know any programming language to code and significantly speed up the process for skilled IT professionals are Cursor, ChatGPT, Claude, and others. And although Ukrainian IT professionals have not yet encountered the use of vibecoding in interviews on a large scale, some companies are already looking for specialists with such skills. And Meta will allow vibecoding in interviews. dev.ua asked six IT professionals and digital specialists working in different fields how they use vibecoding, what AI tools they use for this, and how it helps them in their work. Below are insights on the use of AI in their work from a Magento/Go Developer, UX Designer, Software Engineer, System Support Engineer, Project Manager, and Performance Marketing Manager.