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Google rewrites AI race rules with multimodal dominance Google's Gemini 3 scores 37.5% on HLE vs GPT-5.1's 26.5%, doubles screen understanding, hits 91% spatial reasoning. Anti-gravity IDE kills Cursor. New era begins. Gemini 3 demolishes benchmarks with impossible gains The benchmark massacre is comprehensive: Gemini 3 Pro scored 31.1% on Arc AGI 2 versus GPT-5.1's 17.6%, crushed VPCT spatial reasoning at 91% versus 66%, and doubled the previous best on Screen Spot Pro from

Svelte ditches the virtual DOM, compiles away complexity, and delivers blazing-fast UI without the noise. React, watch your back. Svelte is quietly becoming a top frontend choice in 2025. No virtual DOM, faster load times, and zero boilerplate discover why it’s gaining serious traction among devs and startups alike. Svelte is making React feel old In 2025, devs are starting to whisper what once sounded impossible “Svelte feels better than React.” While React still dominates

1. Finding the right people for your team This is without doubt the hardest challenge. Finding skilled software professionals is hard, but find the people who work can work together is even harder. Although this is the hardest there is no way around it. The success of any software project depends on one factor - how good the team behind it is. We know this from our experience in working with 100s of software projects over the past 18 years, but research and data in this area

A common question we get asked is: what are the soft-skills that a software developer needs? The answer to that question can be pretty big and some of the candidates can be very surprising (e.g. marketing skills - for advertising yourself in the new job market where employers actually find you rather than you find employers). But if the question is rephrased to: “What is the #1 soft-skill that a software developer needs?” The answer is super easy. There is no confusion here,

< Step 1: Specify Step 3: Ballpark estimates > Priya, our fictional software entrepreneur from the previous chapter on this series has a dream to make “Designly” a software platform for interior designs. She has followed our suggestions on writing down her features in the specific format that software developers love as step 1 in her journey to make her software. Now her big challenge is to find a software developer company who will turn her dream into reality. This is not a

< Previous Chapter Next Chapter > This is the part 2 in the section about finding and hiring talent in a hearty company. Check out the previous section with the button above. And click here read from the start. People are passionate only about jobs they love. And jobs they love are the jobs their personality, intellect, skill, habits, worldview and most importantly their mindset is a good fit for. Every job role has a certain fit. Some people fit it, some don’t. What

< Preface Next Chapter > Ingredient: Passion Passion comes from the people. So getting this ingredient right is really about hiring the right people and keeping them motivated, engaged and inspired. When you are building your team and hiring people, you are really hiring their passion. You’d think hiring someone with the right resume, the right experience and skill should be your goal. But it is not. Your goal is to find the person who has the passion to do what y

Software developers have a reputations for being “difficult”. But from my years of working with literally hundreds of developers I know that what is considered “difficult” is just a wrong way of looking at things. You can completely change the interaction and behavior of a “difficult” developer if you just adopt a few easy changes in your thinking and action. These “software people skills” are super easy and it’s really painful to see how many project managers or team leads d

Did you know that most software startups fail? Yet majority of the startups that fail actually have great business ideas. Take the failed startup Kettlebell Kitchen for example (shut down Nov 2019 after 11 years of trying). If you think about their idea it sounds fantastic - people want to eat well or use a particular diet -> It’s hard to maintain it yourself -> use the software to receive meal kits based on nutritionist’s advice and stay on the program. Takes on the restaura