The Tunga Blog

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 software development, and the things that should never be automated. Some of the topics covered: The podcast is in Dutch. Listen on Spotify: Watch on […]

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 half of this is true, it changes what your company is worth, who will buy from you, and whether your team needs […]

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 Clingendael report set out to investigate. What the Dutch government wanted to know The Netherlands has a bilateral partnership with Nigeria that […]

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 on earth do I start? Turns out I’m not the only one. Every entrepreneur I’ve spoken to in the past few […]

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 to find out the hard way. I hear this regularly. In news articles, on LinkedIn, in conversations at events. It is stated with […]

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 invested time in learning. But once a human is involved, once someone is actually deciding whether to hire you, they rarely move the decision […]

We track 1000s of software developer job postings daily across Northern Europe and North America at Tunga. And we talk to the CTOs and founders posting them. Many of those job postings describe an impossible person. A “Senior ML Engineer” position posted in January 2026 requires “5+ years experience with LLM fine-tuning and RAG architecture.” […]

The negotiation that keeps breaking, and what actually fixes it Every few weeks, we watch the same pattern repeat. A European company quotes a budget based on “Africa rates.” An experienced developer in Lagos or Nairobi quotes something close to European levels. Both numbers make sense. Both feel fair to the person giving them. And […]