Artificial Intelligence is everywhere. But meaningful results are not. We reached a point where access is no longer the problem. Tools are abundant. Content is abundant. “AI-powered” workflows are everywhere. Even so, most professionals are still thinking and operating at the same level as before. Something is off. The issue is not the technology itself. It is how it is being used. Right now, most
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