I used to send out application after application and hear nothing back. Not a single reply. At first, I thought my resume wasn't impressive enough. So I made it fancier. Added columns. Played with layouts. Tossed in some icons. Still nothing. Then I learned about Applicant Tracking Systems. Companies use software like Lever, Greenhouse, and Workday to scan resumes before a human ever sees them. If
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