This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jeremiah Peoples, a 28-year-old staff developer advocate at Slack in Austin. It's been edited for length and clarity. I work in software ...

Two weeks ago, I wrote a piece about how some software coders are hitting labor market turbulence in the wake of a post-pandemic retrenchment and the sudden shift to generative artificial intelligence ...

Tabby Toney, 37, has left her career in tech to pursue welding.Courtesy of Tabby Toney Tabby Toney left her tech career for welding after being laid off in May. The tech industry's growing reliance on ...

AI obsolescence is “coming for basically everyone in due time,” says Shawn K, an engineer who went from earning $150k to being locked out of the workforce for over a year. Tech layoffs are nothing new ...

Abraham Rubio has wanted to be a software engineer since childhood. On the gaming platform Minecraft, he loved tinkering with “mods,” or alterations to video games created by fans that change elements ...

An AI called Devin just landed a job on Wall Street. Goldman Sachs just “hired” an AI software engineer made by the startup Cognition. Goldman CIO Marco Argenti told CNBC that the company plans to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Rachel Wells is a writer who covers leadership, AI, and upskilling. No professional can afford to be stagnant. Every industry has ...

The boom years of tech hiring may have cooled, but the paychecks haven’t. Top software roles still draw six-figure salaries, and companies continue to compete for people who can keep their systems ...

Dozens of tech workers are taking to job site Blind, strategizing for when AI will replace them and wondering if it's the end of a "golden age." ...

Amazon Web Services on Tuesday announced a new class of artificial intelligence systems called "frontier agents" that can work autonomously for hours or even days without human intervention, ...

SANTA CLARA, CA - December 16, 2025 - - As artificial intelligence tools become deeply embedded in modern software ...