UK government announces AI action plan, committing to expand sovereign compute capacity by at least 20x by 2030, new AI Growth Zones, and targeted measures to boost AI skills, infrastructure and adoption across public and private sectors. gov.uk/government/pub…

The 2024 Rust Annual Survey shows growing adoption with 92.5% of respondents actively using Rust and 53.4% using it daily, or nearly so. For hiring managers: 22% of organisations plan to hire Rust developers in the coming year. blog.rust-lang.org/2025/02/13/202…

FTSG 2025 Tech Trends Report - "Which technologies have the most disruptive potential and momentum to shape the near future?". ftsg.com/trends/

The State of React Native survey ran from December 2024 to January 2025 and gathered 3501 responses. The survey is not affiliated with Meta or the React Native team. results.stateofreactnative.com/en-US/

InfoQ 2025 Culture and Methods Trends Report - Junior engineers are seen as vital to the industry, with today's juniors quickly adapting to AI tools to refine their questions and accelerate their learning before approaching senior colleagues. infoq.com/articles/cultu… InfoQ

Stanford's 2025 AI Index Report presentation covers trends across R&D, technical performance, ethics, economy, education, policy, diversity and public opinion in AI. youtube.com/watch?v=D03EJh…

PwC's 2025 Global AI Jobs Barometer reveals that AI can make people more valuable, not less – even in the most highly automatable jobs. PwC analysed close to a billion job ads to uncover AI's global impact on jobs, skills, wages, and productivity. pwc.com/gx/en/issues/a…

Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the invention of the table saw.

2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/

JetBrains 2025 Developer Ecosystem Survey. Based on the input of 24,534 developers from 194 countries and regions. devecosystem-2025.jetbrains.com

The 2025 GitHub Octoverse report suggests a structural skills shift: AI-assisted development and a rise in typed languages, with TypeScript overtaking Python. All signals worth watching in the IT job market. github.blog/news-insights/…

Stanford researchers suggest 2026 will be less about AI hype and more about accountability. We anticipate a greater demand for AI evaluation, deployment outcome monitoring and human-AI collaboration protocols. news.stanford.edu/stories/2025/1…

Study finds developers using AI finished initial work faster, and subsequent maintenance by a separate developer was not measurably worse. Open question is whether this scales without building "cognitive debt" across larger codebases and longer timeframes arxiv.org/abs/2507.00788

The middle loop: A new category of supervisory engineering work is forming between inner-loop coding and outer-loop delivery. Nobody has named it yet. thoughtworks.com/about-us/event…

How tech pay differs across the UK, Germany and the US. computing.co.uk/feature/2026/f…