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
The Problem (3 paragraphs) MuJoCo is the fastest-growing robotics simulator Converting URDF to MJCF is painful (./compile is buggy, urdf2mjcf ignores off-diagonal inertia, mesh paths break) You just want to convert and start training your RL agent The Solution (show curl + Python code) @robot.urdf" import roboinfra Real Example (use your preview_test_arm.urdf) Show the input URDF (6 links, 5 j
The problem (3 sentences) ROS CI pipelines are slow because check_urdf needs full ROS install Most GitHub Actions runners don't have ROS You just want to catch broken joint refs before merging The solution (show the YAML) 6 lines of GitHub Action config No ROS install, no Docker, runs in 5 seconds Real example (screenshot) Show NASA Robonaut 2 URDF passing validation Show a broken URDF failing wit