The first time I had to sit down and write operating principles for two AI agents working on the same codebase, I had a moment of genuine déjà vu. It felt exactly like the early Foodora days. Too much speed, too little structure, and someone on the team absolutely certain they knew the fastest route even when the road wasn't built yet. Except this time the team is Claude and Codex. And I'm working
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