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Data and analysis on digital talent
Reports, whitepapers, and research from Tunga and our partners. On the African tech workforce, remote team performance, and what companies building across borders need to know.
Where 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 through the roof. Something in the economics of the work has flipped, and the st
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AI's real value is in your operations, not your product
April 2026Everyone 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 talent. But the idea of competing for machine learning talent against companies
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The SaaS sector is supposedly dying. Here’s what the data actually shows.
March 2026If 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 fr
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The Software Developer Market Is Not Doing What Everyone Says It Is
March 2026There 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
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What Software Developer Job Postings Are Really Telling Us
February 2026We 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
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When salary data meets real people: navigating African developer compensation
February 2026The 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
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