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One sale ends; another one begins. Prime Big Deal Days may have wrapped up at Amazon, but Argos is here with another of its Big Red events. As we've seen before, these sales offer up to 50% off tech, furniture, and toys. I've had a search through it and found 18 of the best deals, including some great low prices on appliances, headphones, laptops, vacuums, and more.
• Browse the full Argos Big Red sale
To see how much of a saving you can get, you simply have to look for the red banner at the top of each eligible product page. For example, the code 'RED10' gets you a saving of 10%, 'RED20' a 20% discount, 'RED30' for 30% off, and 'RED50' to get a 50% discount.
With these vouchers, I've spotted some excellent deals on a Ninja air fryer, a Shark vacuum and Apple AirPods. Check them out below, as well as all of the biggest savings across the most popular product categories at Argos. And just so you know, the sale runs until October 13.
Argos Big Red sale — quick links- Appliances: up to 30% off Beko & Hotpoint
- DIY: up to 30% off tools & outdoor goods
- Furniture: up to 50% off
- Gaming: up to 20% off chairs & accessories
- Headphones: up to 30% off Beats & Shokz
- Health & Beauty: up to 50% off Dyson & Oral-B
- Kitchen: up to 20% off Ninja & De'Longhi
- Laptops: from £149
- Phones: up to 20% off Samsung & Motorola
- Smart Home: up to 50% off Blink cameras
- Toys: up to 50% off
- TVs: from £149
- Vacuums: up to 50% off Vax & Shark
- A significant number of developers consider themselves to be suffering fatigue or burnout, study finds
- Devs are also concerned about the ethics of AI, and fear being replaced by automated coding tools
- The Stack Overflow Developer Survey compiled responses from 30,000 developers from 169 countries
A new industry survey exploring the state-of-developers has uncovered growing distrust in AI and concerns about fatigue and burnout. While the overall response to the increasing use of AI is largely positive, growing concerns about the technology are clear, with little trust in the technology to make important decisions.
Stack Overflow’s annual survey is a useful look at how developers feel about the industry they work in, and highlights a growing friction between traditional software development and the growing role of AI tools.
The survey, by the Stack Overflow coding question-and-answer platform, also highlights a growth in solo employment, with 10.5% of respondents stating they freelance or are sole proprietors of a business, up from 3.9% in the previous years’ survey.
Developer burnoutOne key takeaway from the survey is that 45.1% of developers state they are “complacent” in their current roles, with around a third (32.6%) of respondents describing themselves as “unhappy” (just 22.3% are “happy.”) Of that 45.1% figure, burnout or fatigue were cited as the main cause (21.1%).
While remote work is still popular (34.8% of developers work wherever), the survey surfaces unclear, ambiguous priorities as a challenge, something that may inform general fatigue – or, indeed, feelings about AI.
Although many developers use AI (and search) to solve problems, its growing use within coding is being met with caution. Some 17.2% of developers don’t use AI tools, while assistants and agents are employed by 65.9%. But while developers are keen to learn new skills (52% have learned a new coding language in the past year), they are wary of AI’s consequences, with 17% concerned that it may replace them.
Critical skepticismA read of the full survey paints a picture of an industry of skilled professionals finding their way in a new, unpredictable landscape – one that their own industry is responsible for.
Prashanth Chandrasekar, CEO of Stack Overflow says: “Developers are historically a highly skeptical group, and over the last year, as AI agents become rapidly more autonomous, that skepticism now acts as a critical safeguard.”
“As agents take on more work, developers need to know where an answer came from, what context informed the information that was produced or a decision that was made, and the most crucial piece — that they can actually verify its accuracy and relevance.
For those concerned about burnout and fatigue and their long-term careers, trust is perhaps the answer. “Trust is not a given when it comes to developers,” says Chandrasekar. “It is earned through transparency, source attribution, and rich technical context.”