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Leading the Shift to AI-Assisted Engineering: Cape Town Tech Leader Exchange

30+ engineering leaders. Four roundtables. One question: how far have SA tech teams actually gone with AI? Here's the framework, and the five things that kept c...

by Nicolette

Topic: tech insights

Coronation’s Sameer Adams: Tools change, the need for problem-solving doesn't

Coronation's Head of Software & AI Engineering on building human oversight into agentic workflows, why the bottleneck was never engineering, and what he looks f...

by Nicolette

Topic: tech insights

Capitec's Andrew Baker: "Our architecture is designed for AI adoption."

Capitec's Group CIO on how a 40-hour outage forced a rebuild, why junior engineers aren't the problem, and why he doesn't believe in a single leadership princip...

by Nicolette

Topic: tech insights

Allan Gray's Brian van Vuuren: AI is an EM's way back into the detail

Brian van Vuuren, Software Development Manager at Allan Gray, on why AI gives engineering leaders room to get back into the technical detail, and why that's whe...

by Nicolette

Topic: tech career insights

"Leadership Is All About You and Never About You": Leadership Lessons from Daniel Amber

Daniel Amber, CTO at Cars.co.za, on letting go of control, the mistakes that shaped how he leads, and what changes when AI speeds up execution

by Nicolette

Topic: tech insights

The Software Engineer Skillset 60+ Tech Leads Are Hiring For

Discover the most in-demand software developer skills in the AI era, according to 60+ engineering leaders.

by Nicolette

Topic: tech career insights

"Empathy Doesn't Remove the Accountability": Leadership Lessons with Megan Tipps

At a recent Leadership Lessons, we sat down with Megan Tipps, engineering leader at Parent Sense and author of the blog Leading with Empathy.

by Nicolette

Topic: tech career insights

"AI Codes. It Doesn't Programme.": Leadership Lessons from Mike Fisher

We sat down with Mike at our recent Leadership Lessons AMA to dig into what the military really taught him about leading people, the failures that shaped his pa...

by Nicolette

Topic: tech career insights

"You can't manage people, you can only manage the container": Leadership Lessons from Stephan Swart

Stephan Swart on the leadership lessons that actually hold engineering teams together: the BART framework, why AI adoption is a change management problem before...

by Nicolette

Topic: salaries

Software Developer Salary Trends in South Africa

Learn what junior and senior software developers earn in South Africa. Find the average software developer salary in 2026.

by Josh Nel

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