Hiring Offshore Developers? Five Decisions to Get Right First
Good developers need clear direction, workable hours and a team structure that helps them deliver. Here is what to establish before the next hire.
Insights
The AI-Built App Works. Who Looks After It Now?
An app built with AI has become useful enough to keep. Deciding who maintains it and builds what comes next should leave room to keep running the business.
Breach reporting in the AI era
What 4,769 data breach notifications reveal about how Australian organisations detect and report data breaches in the AI era – 2022-present.
AI Is Helping. So Where Are the Time Savings?
AI is useful, but the working day still feels much the same. The next opportunity lies in the work people still have to do after the AI response.
AI Is Making Traditional Automation Faster and Cheaper
Faster, lower-cost software development is making automation projects viable that businesses once struggled to justify.
Offshore Development Needs Technical Leadership
Successful offshore delivery depends on clear requirements and technical leadership that connects developers to the business.
Own Your Technology, Do Not Build a Tech Team
Own the code and set the direction without taking on the responsibility of building an internal software team.
My two days with Fable 5 before falling back to Opus 4.8
Anthropic's Fable 5 was the best AI model I'd used, until a US directive switched it off for two weeks. It is back, but the resilience lesson still stands.
AI Maturity in Australian Businesses, 2026
First-party data from Adaca's May 2026 executive roundtables: 60 senior leaders across 50 Australian businesses self-assessed against the Crawl, Walk, Run model. 45 placed themselves at Crawl, 4 at Walk, 1 at Run.
Nobody in the room had an AI agent running in production
We asked 60 leaders at 50 Australian businesses to rate their AI maturity. 45 sat at "crawl", and not one had an AI agent running in production. Here's why.
Dev Jobs Report
Devs in record demand: why AI is displacing, not replacing Australian software developers. Read Adaca's Dev Jobs Report.
Software Developer Jobs in Australia: the Market in Numbers
Adaca's analysis of ABS labour force data: 216,000 software and applications programmers now work in Australia, up from 189,000 in 2025 and more than triple the 2006 figure.