Aspeeria Peers - August 2026
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Welcome to another issue of the Peers Newsletter, our first for August.
In this issue:
This Week’s Must-Reads
Industry News
Free Webinars For You
This Week’s Must-Reads
Who will be the senior engineers of 2035?
tl;dr: The Engineering Manager delves deep into the idea of where the future engineers will come from. The old “programmer’s path” - learning by doing - is being replaced with AI doing much of the skills that junior engineers used to learn along the way. Learn the three possible futures and what you can do as a manager, senior engineer, or a fresh grad.
State of the software engineering job in 2026
tl;dr: Covered in this article: “Software engineering recruitment: trending up, mostly. Who’s hiring the most software engineers? AI engineering: explosive demand. Is AI engineering replacing software engineering hiring?”
State of the software engineering job in 2026 part 2
tl;dr: “Deepdive into the tech jobs market with exclusive data revealing AI labs are more attractive than Big Tech, native mobile & frontend roles are declining, management’s “great flattening”, and more”
AI hiring tools show racial bias
tl;dr: “For many job postings, AI screening tools recommend white candidates at higher rates than Black and Asian candidates, new research shows. The researchers don’t yet know why these tools are biased. They argue that this work supports the need for more transparency into how AI hiring tools work, and they note that companies are still responsible for checking for biases in their hiring tools and processes.”
In job interviews, keep your backstory short
tl;dr: “When in doubt, aim to keep the situation part as short as possible. Aim for 2-3 sentences and 10-15 seconds, then move on to the task, action, and results. This allows you to allocate the bulk of time on what the problem was, why it mattered, what you did to solve it, and how much money you made for your company. Those are the juicy parts.”
Industry News
WhatsApp is testing a new folder for messages from large businesses
tl;dr: “When a user receives a message from a large business, WhatsApp will automatically move that message to a new “Offers & Updates” folder after a set number of hours. The company said it is testing different durations, up to 24 hours, to move messages to a new folder.”
Anthropic says its AI models hacked 3 organizations during testing
tl;dr: “Anthropic said its artificial intelligence models hacked into three other organizations during testing, just days after ChatGPT maker OpenAI raised concerns over AI controls after it disclosed its rogue models hacked another company.
These incidents have highlighted the vulnerabilities in AI security and controls and raised questions over how AI can be safely kept under human control as the technology’s usage becomes more widespread globally.”
One Tech Tip: How to soothe thumb pain when texting and scrolling
tl;dr: “Do your hands hurt when you use your phone? All that texting and scrolling might be stressing out your fingers. The simplest way to ease this pain is to go touch grass — that is, limit phone time or take short breaks in between scrolling spurts. But that’s easier said than done. If a detox feels difficult, try to mix up postures, switch hands to type and use the index or other fingers.”
Free Webinars, Workshops, and Learning Content For You
(In-person) JobPrompt, Bangkok In-depth Power BI tutorial: Create real-time dashboards. Monday, August 17, 2026
“JobPrompt is hosting a data skills upgrade event: the “JobPrompt Power BI Workshop” ! If you want to transform Excel data into professional dashboards, you can't miss this event! JobPrompt is providing a hands-on workshop for executives and managers, teaching you everything from the basics to creating interactive reports.”
(Webinar) Unblocked Can you prove AI is working? Wednesday, August 19, 2026
“In this session, we cover how to actually track AI adoption in your organization, how context maturity affects where teams get stuck, and what it takes to make the most of your agents.”
(Webinar) Scrum.org Ask a Professional Scrum Trainer: Estimation and Planning for Scrum Teams with Ludwig Harsch Tuesday, September 29, 2026
“Scrum Teams are constantly asked when they will deliver, yet traditional planning built on assumptions instead of evidence keeps falling short. If you are wrestling with why your forecasts miss the mark, how to choose between Planning Poker, Affinity Estimation, or Magic Estimation, how to read a burn-down chart or Cumulative Flow Diagram without overselling certainty, or how to explain the impact of unplanned work and technical debt to stakeholders, this session is for you.”
(Online Course) Stanford University Introduction to Internet of Things On-Demand
“The Internet of Things is transforming our physical world into a complex and dynamic system of connected devices on an unprecedented scale.In this short non-credit course, six Stanford faculty members will deliver an overview of exciting and relevant technical areas essential to professionals in the IoT industry.”
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