Postmortem: How Not Knowing OPA 0.70 and Kyverno 1.12 Cost Me a DevSecOps Role at Stripe I’ve been a DevSecOps engineer for 6 years, with a focus on cloud native policy enforcement using Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Kyverno. When I landed an interview for a senior DevSecOps role at Stripe earlier this year, I was confident: I had years of experience writing Rego policies, deploying Kyverno Cluste
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