thomasrayn

  Python's position in software development is changing in a specific way. GitHub reported that Python had about 2.6 million contributors in 2025, up roughly 48% year over year, while nearly half of new AI repositories used Python as their primary language. At the same time, Stack Overflow's 2025 Developer Survey found Python adoption rose by 7 percentage points in a single year. Those signals come from different datasets, yet they point toward the same pattern: Python is becoming more closely tied to AI work, back-end development, and production systems rather than serving only as a scripting language. That pattern matters for US companies deciding what kind of developers they need. A growing Python workload can involve web applications, APIs, machine learning systems, data pipelines, or automation code. Hiring decisions therefore depend less on finding someone who merely knows Python syntax and more on matching technical experience to the work the business intends to ship. ...

Finance leaders are entering 2026 with a wider operating brief than many companies used when they last hired a CFO. Deloitte’s Q4 2025 CFO Signals survey found that 87% of North American CFOs expect AI to be extremely or very important to finance operations in 2026, while 50% named digital transformation of finance as a top priority. Another 49% said automating processes so employees can focus on higher-value work is their leading finance talent priority. The Deloitte Q4 2025 CFO Signals survey shows why CFO hiring now has to test judgment around technology spending as carefully as reporting quality and capital decisions. The CFO mandate now reaches deeper into business decisions The role sits where investment choices meet operating performance. A CFO may own budgeting, cash flow, reporting, controls, and financing while also advising on AI spending, pricing, acquisition economics, workforce costs, and scenario planning. A search should begin with the decisions the incoming CFO mu...