Every few years the industry rediscovers that programming languages are not religions. Then we immediately behave like they are religions. Someone posts a benchmark. Someone else says memory safety. Someone says developer experience. A distributed systems person appears from under a bridge and whispers “Erlang solved this in 1998.” A startup founder announces they are rewriting their CRUD app in R
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
AI. It's the buzzword on everyone's lips, the technology promising to revolutionize… well, everything. And, predictably, it's met with a healthy dose of skepticism, if not outright disdain. "It's unreliable," some say. "It hallucinates," others lament. "It's a crutch for those who don't understand the real work." Sound familiar? It should. Because this isn't the first time humanity has grappled wi
Opinion: We Ditched All Third-Party Mobile SDKs – Cut App Startup Time by 30% for iOS 18 When iOS 18 launched, our team braced for the usual post-release performance tweaks. Instead, we hit a wall: our flagship app’s cold startup time had crept up to 2.8 seconds, well above Apple’s recommended 1.5-second threshold for optimal user retention. After months of debugging, we made a radical call: rem