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March 202611 min read
Software Engineering Isn't Dead — But the Old Way of Working Is
157,000 tech layoffs in 2025. Salesforce froze engineering hires. Claude Code in 69% of enterprise teams. I went through the actual research so you don't have to panic-read headlines.
AICareerSoftware EngineeringCoding Agents2026
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Three Years of LLMs: What the Benchmarks Actually Show
In late 2022, GPT-4 couldn't reliably solve competition math problems. By 2025, reasoning models are outscoring domain-expert PhDs on their own subject matter. I tried to put the full arc into one place.
AI ModelsBenchmarksLLMsDeep Learning
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