💼 The state of the front-end job market

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Here’s everything you need to know this week in the world of full-stack development.

Programming

🪦 Why Software Engineering Will Never Die
A new paper, "Preparing Students for the Software Industry's New Demands", explores how grads can be job-ready, but also hints at a deeper issue: are dev roles at risk from low-code and AI tools? Despite the rise of simplified platforms, solid software engineering principles still matter.

🪱 The Worm That No Computer Scientist Can Crack
The C. elegans nematode, one of the most studied organisms on Earth, has stumped scientists for over a decade.

For 13 years, the OpenWorm project has attempted to fully simulate it, and so far, it’s been a complete failure. Here’s the story.

🫶 A love letter to the CSV format
Mistidoi just dropped a love letter to the CSV format. Every few weeks, someone declares CSV "dead," hyping up formats like Parquet or JSON. But those takes often miss the point. CSV isn’t perfect, but it’s simple, universal, and stubbornly unkillable.

⚠️ Karpathy’s ‘Vibe Coding’ Movement Considered Harmful
Andrej Karpathy recently described his approach to “vibe coding”, relying entirely on AI suggestions, admitting, “I ‘Accept All’ always, I don’t read the diffs anymore.” While AI can absolutely enhance productivity, there’s a clear line between augmentation and abdication. Trusting the tools blindly may feel efficient, but the hidden cost is a gradual erosion of code comprehension, and that’s a price not worth paying.

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Front-End

💼 The state of the front-end and full-stack job market
After a deep dive into the front-end vs full-stack debate, Tim Severien asked the real question: Are my skills actually in demand? Surveys show what devs like — not what employers want. So he turned to the real data: job listings. Here’s what he found.

🤔 Is Redux no longer popular?
An insightful Reddit thread raises a great question: Is Redux falling out of favor for state management in React. A dev returning to upskill noticed newer roadmaps highlight tools like Zustand, Jotai, and MobX, with Redux nowhere in sight. Even the main Redux maintainer chimed in. So is Redux no longer popular?

📊 State of Vue.js Report 2025
From discovering Vue in 2015 to becoming official Vue & Nuxt Partners, Monterail has spent a decade growing with the framework. The State of Vue.js 2025 Report, created in collaboration with Evan You and the Vue and Nuxt Core Teams, offers 150+ pages of insights, 16 real-world case studies from brands like GitLab and Storyblok, and feedback from 1,400+ developers. It’s your definitive guide to the present and future of Vue and Nuxt.

🖌️ Google’s AI adds New Mode Tailored for React Developers
Google Gemini quietly rolled out Canvas, a new feature that lets developers generate, refine, and preview code inside a familiar editor. Just describe the functionality, and it returns relevant snippets across languages.

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AI

💻️ Cursor adds custom modes

📷️ ChatGPT adds new image mode and it’s shockingly good

🪝 Viral Hook Generator

Have a great week, see you the same time next week!

- Full Stack Focus team :)