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Devs in record demand
Press Releases 26 May 2026

Devs in record demand

Why AI is displacing, not replacing Australian software developers. The data on a workforce that has more than tripled since 2006.

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REV 2026.06 · 06.02
Adaca in the News 13 Jul 2026

IFA: ASIC on track for over $800m in civil penalties in FY26

ifa.com.au reports ASIC is on track for over $800 million in FY26 civil penalties, nearly matching the previous decade combined. Adaca founder Lambros Photios told ifa.com.au the regulator is setting a new standard on AI governance and data sovereignty.

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Press Releases 9 Jul 2026

ASIC's FY26 civil penalties are already a record, Adaca FOI analysis shows

Adaca's analysis of ASIC's own Freedom of Information data shows the regulator's FY26 civil penalty haul closed the year at $830 million, a record for any financial year, without any increase in the number of cases filed.

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Adaca in the News 9 Jul 2026

AFR: how AI is reshaping the legal sector

The Australian Financial Review on law firms restructuring around AI, moving beyond the billable hour and building their own platforms. The piece cites Sparke Helmore's partnership with Adaca to launch Trivity, an AI software venture serving government departments and banks.

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Adaca in the News 8 Jul 2026

InnovationAus: AI hasn't upended the labour market yet

InnovationAus covers a federal government report finding no broad AI-driven labour market disruption, with software development employment up 25% since November 2022. Adaca founder Lambros Photios argues developers are being displaced, not replaced.

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Adaca in the News 6 Jul 2026

The Register: software engineers can still rake in big bucks

The Register on Levels.fyi data showing software engineer pay tracks company growth. Adaca founder Lambros Photios notes Australia bucks the global trend, with programmer roles growing from 189,000 to 216,000.

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Opinion 2 Jul 2026

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.

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Opinion 29 Jun 2026

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.

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Adaca in the News 16 Jun 2026

IT Brief: Australia hits a record 216,000 software developers

IT Brief covers Adaca's "Devs in record demand" report and the record number of software developers now working in Australia.

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Adaca in the News 10 Jun 2026

Capital Brief: developer jobs grow despite AI layoff anxiety

Capital Brief's AI newsletter covers Adaca's "Devs in record demand" report: 216,000 programmers, up from 189,000, and the case that developers are being displaced, not replaced.

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Press Releases 9 Jun 2026

SaaS jobs apocalypse overblown, shows Adaca report

Record number of software developers working in Australia.

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Projects 7 Jun 2026

Adaca RED, our open-source operations platform

Adaca has open-sourced Adaca RED: an operations platform built around RED (Relevance, Extent and Duration), a way to measure how well an initiative reduces the risk it targets. MIT-licensed and self-hostable.

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Adaca in the News 23 Apr 2026

Adaca's Founder in the AFR on offshoring and STEM skills

Adaca founder Lambros Photios spoke to the Australian Financial Review about banks moving technology roles offshore, and what it means for Australian STEM skills.

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Press Releases 17 Apr 2026

AI layoffs have added AUD$549bn to global stock markets, says Adaca research

Software biz warns that gambling on AI layoff announcements is risky and short-sighted.

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Projects 16 Apr 2026

joblossimpact.ai: tracking how layoffs move stock prices

An Adaca-built public tracker correlating AI-era layoff announcements with the stock-price moves that followed, across dozens of listed companies. Data refreshed continuously.

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