A 19-Year-Old Just Sold A Calorie Tracking App For $40 Million
In March 2026, MyFitnessPal bought Cal AI. The company behind one of the biggest fitness brands on the planet paid...
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4 Things Released This Year That Sound Like Like Sci-Fi In 2022
1. A humanoid robot that folds your laundry (and also builds BMWs) Figure 03 was unveiled by Brett Adcock’s Figure...
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The $275 000 Per Year Role You Might Already Be Qualified For, That Did Not Exist in 2023
Open a job board today and search for “AI Agent Operations Engineer.” You will find hundreds of listings. Open the...
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Three Projects That Should Be On Your AI And Machine Learning Portfolio By Year Two
Nobody in this industry evaluates potential by course syllabus or completed assignments. What opens doors is evidence that you understand...
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How To Capitalise On The Bidding War For Machine Learning Engineers
There are 1.6 million open AI and machine learning roles in the world right now. There are 518,000 qualified candidates....
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The Classes You Take In Your Lunchbreak Are Competing With The Ones That Cost $40,000 Per Year
The classes you take in your lunchbreak are now competing with the ones that cost 40,000 dollars a year. And...
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A Day In The Life Of A Remote Data Scientist Living In Amsterdam
If you have ever wondered what the actual Monday to Friday rhythm of a remote data science job in Amsterdam...
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Everyone Can Code Now. The Art Of Noticing Is What You Get Paid For.
A junior product manager shipped a working landing page in 14 minutes last month using nothing but prompts. The page...
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Meet Samuel: The Student From Abuja Building a Career While Studying Software Engineering
How one AmsterdamTech student balances software engineering, client work, music, and university life Samuel is a software engineering student from...
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Three Wild Tech Breakthroughs That Just Happened
Artificial intelligence, biology, and robotics are moving faster than ever. Here is why technology is the most exciting field you...
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Three Products A Second-Year Software Engineering Student Could Ship In 2026
What You Could Be Building Showcase Anysphere, the company behind Cursor, recently negotiated a $50 billion valuation after reaching $2...
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From Helpdesk To Junior Engineer: The Career Move IT Support Workers Need
Anysphere, the company behind Cursor, recently negotiated a $50 billion valuation after reaching $2 billion in ARR in under three...
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The 5 Tech Roles Hiring Managers Are Quietly Desperate To Fill In 2026
Every recruiter has a list. On that list are the roles they can’t fill. Not “hard to fill”. Cannot fill....
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Which Tech Career Suits You Best (Match Your Brain To The Right Path)
Most people pick a tech career the wrong way. They chase the salary, or the hype, or whatever their cousin...
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Your Home Country Is Not Holding Your Tech Career Back Anymore
There is a story people still tell themselves in 2026 that has not been true for years. It goes like...
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Three Founders, Three Countries All Following One Rule Nobody Told Them
The rule is simple: Build before you are ready. But in an era where everyone is waiting for the perfect...
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Failing Forward: How Hands-On Practice Trumps Theory in Software Engineering
How failing forward compounds learning in software engineering, and why action always beats theoretical readiness. Samuel had never built geolocation...
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Everyone Thinks Coding Is The Hard Part. It Is Not Anymore.
Ben Broca started a business by himself called Polsia and reached $1 million in yearly sales in just 30 days....
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Code for the Planet and Lead the Market: The Green Tech Skill Giving New Graduates the Ultimate Edge
In less than three years, software engineering won’t just be evaluated on speed and performance, it will be evaluated on...
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Failing Forward: How Hands-On Practice Trumps Theory in Software Engineering
How failing forward compounds learning in software engineering, and why action always beats theoretical readiness. Samuel had never built geolocation...
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From Nairobi to Amsterdam: How Nympha Pamba is Building the Tech Career She Loves
“Don’t be afraid to learn. Any chance you get to invest in yourself, just do it. Don’t think twice.” —...
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Five Habits The Best Remote Workers Never Skip
Fully remote workers ship 13 percent more work than office workers on average, according to 2026 studies. Some studies push...
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Your “Unusual” Background Is Now A Tech Hiring Advantage. Here Is How To Use It.
For years the message was clear. Line up the degrees, land the graduate scheme, tick the milestones, and hiring managers...
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Stop Using Easy Apply. Do This Instead, Says A Tech Headhunter
Hale, a headhunter who works with Dutch scale-ups, sat down for our TechMind Series and casually described the moment tech...
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How An Amsterdam Tech Student Built A Product Companies Will Pay For (Before She Even Graduated)
Anna Kashkina was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and grew up in Russia coding at a time when it was still...
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Introducing Real-Time Multimodal AI Mentoring for Online Project-Based Learning
At Amsterdam Tech, our online bachelor programmes in Software Engineering, Data Science and Machine Learning are built around hands-on, project-based...
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Most Junior Developer Jobs Are Changing, So What Is Replacing Them?
The Brutal Shift in Entry-Level Tech Employment Something brutal is happening to the entry-level tech job. Employment for software developers...
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How To Land A Seat Inside Amsterdam’s Next Startup Wave
Dutch startups have raised 1.66 billion euros in the first half of 2026. Fresh funds. New teams. Real jobs being...
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How to Leverage Your Non-Tech Life Experience as Your Hottest Tech Asset
For years, the conventional wisdom about breaking into tech felt incredibly exclusive: drop everything, learn to code in a caffeine-fueled...
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How to Combine Studying With a Full Time Career
And how we’ve geared our schedule to accommodate people trying to level up. The most common worry we hear from...
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The Quiet Skill That Sets Every Great Tech Leader Apart
And why we built the Tech MBA at AmsterdamTech around this exact idea. Ask any senior tech leader to name...
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A Day in the Life of a Remote Data Scientist
And how to achieve it with no current tech knowledge It is 8:45 in the morning. Coffee is on the...
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If AI Is Stealing Jobs, Why Are 1.6 Million AI Roles Still Empty?
Every other headline this month says AI is coming for your job. Then you open LinkedIn and see another tech...
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Why The Phrase ‘Too Old For Tech’ Is Costing You Six Figures
Spoiler: At Amsterdam Tech, there is no age limit on a software engineer’s CV. In 2026, the people running the...
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What Vibe Coding Means For The Founder Who Always Felt Behind
The non-technical founder used to be the underdog, the person with the idea, the customer instinct, and the painful problem...
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The Data Science Skill Hiring Managers Want That No Bootcamp Teaches
Everyone teaches Python. Everyone teaches SQL. Almost nobody teaches the thing that actually gets a data scientist hired in 2026....
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10 Brutally Honest Truths About Getting Into Tech
The things nobody tells you, and what to do about them. Everyone wants to work in tech. The high salaries,...
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AI Will Only Replace Bad Coders. Here Are the 7 Skills That Keep You Irreplaceable.
The real story about AI and coding, and why learning to code has never mattered more. Here’s a thought experiment....
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If AI Is Stealing Jobs, Why Is There Still A Shortage Of Staff?
It sounds like a trick, right? We hear that AI is taking over everything, yet companies are still desperate to...
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So, you love vibe coding, but how can you turn it into an actual career?
Master High-Demand Technical and Leadership Skills through, Project-Based Bachelor’s and Master’s Programs in AI, Data Science, and Engineering It’s easy...
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If You Want To Create Something, Here Are 10 Books You Have To Read
The urge to create is a powerful motivator, whether you are dreaming of building a scalable software platform, or a...
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A Student’s POV: Project Based vs. Theory‑Based Learning.
If you grew up with traditional school, you might expect lectures, slides, and long readings before you touch any real...
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The 24/7 Advantage: Build Products That Work While You Sleep
In the world of tech, there is a big difference between a project that works when you click “run” and...
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From Dream Concepts to Neural Networks: Anna Kashkina’s Journey at Amsterdam Tech
Have you ever had a brilliant idea for a project while you were asleep? Sometimes the most creative solutions come...
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Student Story: A Senior Engineer from Russia to Master AI in Amsterdam
Have you ever reached a point in your career where you felt the world was changing faster than your current...
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Code from Your Couch, Not a Cubicle.
Spending hours in traffic or packed trains just to sit at a computer you could have used at home feels...
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The CodeProp Project: How One Student Is Solving the Software Onboarding Gap
Have you ever started a new job and felt completely lost looking at a massive wall of code? Most developers...
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Stop Guessing, Start Mapping: From “Spaghetti Code” to CTO
For many self-taught developers, the thrill of coding comes from the “spark.” This is that moment you open a laptop...
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A Student’s Story From Hospitality/Teaching to Software – A Student’s True Story
If you have spent years in hospitality, teaching, or any other “people” job, switching to software can feel like jumping...
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Stop Listing Keywords: Show Us One Thing That Actually Works
Have you ever looked at a job description and felt like you needed to copy every single word onto your...
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50 is the New 20: Why Being Older Makes You a Better Coder.
You might worry that you are “too old” to learn to code. You see stories about teenage founders and fresh...
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Quit School Thrice, Built a SaaS Once: Why Theory Isn’t Everything
Traditional education is often built on a single promise: sit in a chair, listen to a lecture, and you will...
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From Solo Coder to Startup Boss: How to Manage People Smarter Than You
Most people start their tech journey alone. You spend late nights staring at a screen, solving problems by yourself, and...
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From Hospitality to Tech: Sam Davies’ Journey To Becoming A Software Engineer
Transitioning into a new career often feels like standing at the base of a mountain with no clear path to...
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Our Students Perspective: The Problem with “Short Courses”
Everywhere you look, there is another “learn X in 6 weeks” promise. Short courses and certificates are easy to start...
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Why Business and Tech are Actually One Engine – They Need to function as one
For decades, corporate culture has been defined by a Great Divide. On one side of the glass, you have the...
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In Tech, Being a “Misfit” is Better
You show up to interviews, answer questions well, and still hear, “We went with someone who is a better culture...
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The Robots are Hiring: Here is How to Win Their Game.
You send out application after application and hear nothing back. It feels like a black hole. You start to wonder...
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Freelancing is the Future: Be Your Own Boss in Tech.
You see people online working from cafés, choosing their projects, and calling themselves “independent.” It looks tempting, especially if your...
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Our Student Story: Why I’m Relearning Python After 25 Years
In the fast-paced world of technology, there is a common myth that once you reach the “top,” your days of...
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