Looking back, 2025 was full of hype — and disappointment. But let's stay optimistic and have some fun:
Can we tell a story of this year's DEV topics by quoting post titles from my reading list and my own posts backlog? Let's try!
Reflecting 2025 Quoting DEV Post Titles
Disclaimer: this is art, not journalism! Some sentences have been deliberately taken out of context for the sake of storytelling.
Coding in the Age of Constant Deprecation: What’s It Like to Be a Software Developer in 2025? So You Want to Be a Senior Engineer... It's wrong time for Vibe coding, We don't have right tools yet. Vibe Coding Is More Fun Than Actual Coding — And That’s Okay, Bro! Where is the Vibe in "Vibe Coding" and what happened to Music Monday? Rely less on Third-Party Services: Cover Image Generation Now an Option in the DEV Editor.
Cover Image Generation in the DEV Editor
Reflections and Predictions, Analyzing the Challenges and Trends of 2025 about the Dead Internet Theory and AI, why the Latest JavaScript Frameworks Are a Waste of Time, why Local-First is Actually Brilliant, why CSS is emotional (technical debt - the emotional baggage of CSS), and what's new in the 2025 State of JavaScript survey?
(Vibe) Coding Culture
It's Okay If Your Biggest Hobby Isn't Coding The thing is ... I love programming ! Vibe coding: Because who doesn’t love surprise technical debt!?
We, Coders, Often Don't Get To Solve Problems—And That's Boring! Every Developer Is Essentially Always On-Call ☎️ 🤖 Tech Everywhere, Movement Nowhere: Why Smart Living Shouldn’t Replace Natural Exercise Are We Programming Machines... or Programming Ourselves? Svelte’s Growing Pains: Runes, Stores, and the Quest for Standards
🧠 Human Intelligence vs. LLMs, developers vs AI: Helpful Partner or Dangerous Shortcut? How AI Tricks Us Into Trusting It.
They were wrong; 3 "Best Practices" I Followed That Almost Ruined My Project The Code Review That Changed Everything: I Thought My Backups Were Safe - Until I Tried Restoring One 🐈💀 When My AIs Died: The Rise and Fall of Lynqbit & BarnOwl
LLM Poisoning, AI Hype, Myths and Reality
Stop Calling LLMs AI! Let's Poison Your LLM Application: A Security Wake-Up Call Why agents DO NOT write most of our code - a reality check: The AI Industry Has a Truth Problem. Will Reasoning Become the New Turing Test? Let's play a Sherlock Holmes game!
Productivity, Creativity, and (Horror) Story Telling
Why you should not publish content on Dev.to ? The Creative Dilemma: Sharing Ideas vs. Protecting Them. Medium Was Never Meant to Be a Part of the Developer Ecosystem.
"Your Profile Doesn't Match the Role" and Other Interview Horror Stories Day 77: When Apple Service Breaks More Than Your Laptop — Is Burnout Inevitable in the World of Tech? Let's Talk About It
Predicting 2026 in Tech and Web Design
Agility, Productivity and Development in 2026
- "2026", AI Users vs The Unemployed
- Productivity Is Dead. What You Need in 2026 Is Momentum.
- Productivity in 2026: It’s Not About Doing More — It’s About Doing Less (On Purpose)
- Actually Agile: Against Performance Theater in Software Development
- It’s almost 2026: Why Are We Still Arguing About CSS vs Tailwind
- CSS in 2025–2026: It’s Getting Too Powerful and I’m Scared
- 2026 Web, Design, and Tech Predictions - and a Review of Last Year's Forecast
(to be continued)
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