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Microsoft Pays Its AI Engineers 48% More. What About You?

SaaStr

"Software engineers working in AI earned 48% more than the average software engineer at the company, according to a payroll spreadsheet shared with BI." In general, I find most start-ups want to keep engineering comp fairly flat. Back in the day, my CTO just wanted 3 tiers: entry level, top IC, manager.

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June 30, 2025: The Date Where If Your Team Hasn’t Rolled Out Truly Great AI Into Production Yet… It’s Time to Reboot the Team

SaaStr

Workflow transformation that creates new value. Loom’s AI meeting summaries didn’t just transcribe—they created entirely new workflows around asynchronous collaboration. Traditional software engineering skills and AI engineering skills have meaningful overlap, but they’re not the same thing.

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AI Engineer World's Fair 2025: My Day 1 Highlights

Crafty CTO

Sharma shows us some significant new capabilities arriving in Copilot, and with her team presents a couple different agentic app solutions. I didn’t see anything new; I just saw obvious points made as if I knew nothing about other tools or the current state-of-the-art in AI Coding. That’s I think where we’re headed.

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Using Generative AI to Drive Corporate Impact

TechEmpower SaaS

In the sphere of software engineering , AI is pivotal for corporate IT by automating coding, optimizing algorithms, and enhancing security to boost efficiency and minimize downtime. By automating routine and complex tasks alike, AI allows engineers to focus on innovation and strategic tasks.

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The Top 20 Symptoms of a Weak Development Team

TechEmpower SaaS

New features always require significant rewrites, and consequently a lot of time. And the #1 symptom relates to that old software engineering adage: The first 90% of a project takes half the time. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas Developers seem unconcerned about bugs or system downtime.

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Trends in the Post-Modern Data Stack

Tom Tunguz

On Monday, at TC Disrupt Colin Zima CEO of Omni , Jordan Tigani CEO of Motherduck , Daniel Svnova CEO of Superlinked & Toby Mao CTO of Tobiko Data who are leading the evolution of the Post Modern Data Stack discussed the trends they are seeing. Customers are excited about new architectures that significantly reduce cost.

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Braindates Are Open for SaaStr APAC 2023!

SaaStr

The goal is to help each other learn something new, find mentorships, create partnerships, and exchange strategies. Braindates are 1:1 and small group networking sessions designed for you to share knowledge and network with like-minded SaaS leaders during SaaStr Europa.