Developer Experience

Developers share how they handle deadlines, pressure, and team communication - and why small white lies sometimes help engineering teams keep moving.

A CTO with 20 years of experience through multiple tech shifts sees layoffs not as an AI effect, but as a correction after an unsustainable hiring boom. He sees AI as a reset: an opportunity for strong junior engineers, and a wake-up call for senior developers facing an existential shift in how they stay relevant.

Twenty developers got real about their jobs: the rush of shipping something that actually works, the way a fat paycheck can make you stay longer than you probably should, and the slow death of sitting through another meeting that should've been an email.

Infobip Shift 2026, Europe’s leading developer and AI conference, will be held in Zadar from September 13 to 15, bringing together developers and engineers from around the world once again.

I spoke with four veteran software engineers to explore how they’re approaching long-term career resilience and adapting their skills to stay effective in the field.

That number is expected to rise to 65% within two years. Yet 96% of developers, according to this Sonar research, say they don’t fully trust AI-generated code.

Software teams don’t implode because of bad code - they implode because someone really needed to win the argument about it.

Building an app with AI feels easy - until real users arrive.

Managing Python dependencies has always been a pain point - from slow installs to version mismatches across projects. uv aims to fix that.

Software design has always been human-centered. But in the age of AI agents, that’s starting to look like a limitation, not a virtue. The future of software is not in good UX, but in great AX.

Developers save about 10 hours a week by using AI coding tools, but the productivity gains are then lost to organizational inefficiencies.

Software engineers want trust, recognition, and connection.

When you ask a developer for a quick chats or to do an ad‑hoc task, it's costing teams time and money.