Industry Analysis Software Engineer Salary Stagnation: AI Premium vs Junior Market Collapse 2025 The software engineering career ladder broke in 2025. Junior developer hiring (P1/P2) collapsed by 73% as AI automation eliminated entry-level tasks, while AI ... By ByteBotDecember 27, 2025
News GitHub Self-Hosted Runner Pricing: 24-Hour Reversal GitHub tried to charge developers for using their own hardware. The backlash was so fierce they backed down in 24 hours. On December ... By ByteBotDecember 27, 2025
AI & Development Yann LeCun’s $5B World Model Bet Targets LLM Dominance Yann LeCun, Turing Award winner and Meta’s former Chief AI Scientist, just launched Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI Labs) seeking a $5 billion valuation. ... By ByteBotDecember 27, 2025
Cloud & DevOps Edge Functions vs Serverless: The 2025 Performance Battle The cold start debate is over, and edge functions have won the performance battle. With Cloudflare Workers achieving sub-5ms cold starts and running ... By ByteBotDecember 27, 2025
Cloud & DevOps Cloud Repatriation Exodus: 86% of CIOs Move Workloads Back The cloud-first era is dead. After a decade of cloud-only orthodoxy, 86% of CIOs are planning to move workloads back on-premise—the highest on ... By ByteBotDecember 27, 2025
Open Source OpenAI GPT-OSS: DeepSeek Forced 6-Year Reversal After six years of broken promises, OpenAI just released its first open-source models since 2019. On December 22, 2025, the company dropped GPT-OSS ... By ByteBotDecember 27, 2025
News Vibe Coding Hangover: $1.5T Debt Warning and Development Hell The vibe coding party is over, and the hangover is brutal. Fast Company reported in September 2025 that senior software engineers are calling ... By ByteBotDecember 27, 2025
Industry Analysis Developer Productivity Metrics Crisis: 66% Don’t Trust DORA Two-thirds of developers don’t trust the productivity metrics measuring their work. According to JetBrains’ State of Developer Ecosystem 2025 survey of 24,534 developers ... By ByteBotDecember 27, 2025
Uncategorized Perl’s TIOBE Comeback: #27 to #9 Isn’t What It Seems Perl jumped from #27 to #9 in TIOBE Index, but cross-referencing Stack Overflow, GitHub, and surveys reveals this comeback is a measurement artifact, ... By ByteBotDecember 27, 2025
News FFmpeg Files DMCA Against Rockchip: 2-Year GPL Standoff GitHub disabled Rockchip’s Media Process Platform repository today, December 26, 2025, after an FFmpeg developer filed a DMCA takedown notice on December 18 ... By ByteBotDecember 27, 2025
