Why Your Certificates Don’t Matter (And What Actually Does)
A lot of developers believe certifications are a meaningful lever for getting hired internationally. They are not. Hear me out. Certificates can help you pass an automated screen. They signal you’ve...
View ArticleThe Software Developer Market Is Not Doing What Everyone Says It Is
There is a version of this story that has become almost ambient. AI is replacing software developers. Demand is collapsing. The market has fundamentally changed, and whoever hasn’t adapted yet is about...
View ArticleWhat It Actually Takes to Be AI-Ready
Late last year I decided to get serious about AI at Tunga. Not the “give everyone a ChatGPT license” kind of serious. Structurally serious. Redesign how we work. The first question was obvious: where...
View ArticleFinding Digital Talent Where You Weren’t Looking
Most Dutch founders don’t have Nigeria on their radar when they think about hiring. Not as a conscious decision. It simply isn’t on the map. That’s understandable. And it’s exactly what a new...
View ArticleThe SaaS sector is supposedly dying. Here’s what the data actually shows.
If you run a SaaS company, you’ve been reading a lot of alarming things lately. AI will make your product irrelevant. The “SaaSpocalypse” is here. The era of software subscriptions is over. If even...
View ArticleGroeivoer Podcast: What Happens When AI Reshapes the Roles You Built Your...
Our founder Ernesto Spruyt recently joined Guido Koershuis on the Groeivoer podcast (episode 390) for a wide-ranging conversation about building teams across cultures, what AI means for the future of...
View ArticleAI’s real value is in your operations, not your product
Everyone around you seems to be hiring AI engineers. AI job postings are up 143% in a year. The wage premium is 56%. The message is hard to miss: if you’re serious about AI, you need serious technical...
View ArticleThere is a manual for hiring across cultures. It’s only 3 questions long.
Hiring across cultures comes with questions you didn’t quite see coming. What’s expected of you. What’s expected of them. What you can joke about and what you can’t. Whose job it is to flag a problem,...
View ArticleWhere the weight in software work is moving
Engineering teams that have been using AI coding tools in production for a year or more tend to show the same pattern. Output volume is clearly up. Bugs per developer are up too. Review time has gone...
View ArticleWhy you haven’t started your business yet
In 2023 we surveyed the Tunga developer pool about what the Tunga Academy should contribute to achieving. We asked African software developers what their ambitions were, and where they see themselves...
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