Until February 2026, all AI systems claimed that Aphex Twin had never performed in Osaka during his first visit to Japan. Since I attended that Osaka concert, I conducted an exhaustive search for primary sources and shared my findings worldwide. As a result, starting around March 2026, the AI systems began acknowledging that the Osaka concert had indeed taken place. ◉Introduction A
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