State of Software Engineering in 2026: A Reality Check Beyond the AI Hype Three and a half years ago, Matt Welsh, PhD and former Google engineer, published "The End of Programming" in Communications of the ACM and declared that classical computer science was over. The meteor had hit. Engineers were the dinosaurs. The state of software engineering in 2026, he implied, would look nothing like what
GitHub Copilot just got a lot more complicated — and not in a good way. If you tried to sign up for Copilot Pro recently and hit a wall, that's not a bug. GitHub quietly paused new sign-ups for Copilot Pro, Pro+, and Student plans starting in late April 2026. No end date announced. No workaround offered. Just a message and a door that won't open. That alone would be worth covering. But they made t
Most of the "I built an AI workflow" posts you see on here treat Claude like a fancy text box. Open chat, paste prompt, copy answer, ship. That's fine for solo dev tasks. It falls apart fast when you start building for someone else's business, especially one with strict confidentiality, compliance baggage, and a workflow that runs on documents. I've been building Claude-powered tooling for law fir