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
Introduction It’s a wonderful time to be a developer with rich tools, documentation, and artificial intelligence. Still, at least for now and the foreseeable future, developers must learn to write code, as artificial intelligence tools are not perfect and may produce code that is difficult to integrate into an existing code base. For developers just starting out, they need to learn the basics, t