Every week, another breathless headline declares software engineering dead. Another AI demo shows a chatbot building a full-stack app in 90 seconds. Another LinkedIn thought leader posts a funeral wreath emoji next to the words "traditional coding." And every week, I watch senior engineers at real companies quietly doing something that looks nothing like those demos. They're not typing code line b
You asked Claude to build a feature. It worked. You shipped it. Six weeks later, you're adding something related, and nothing makes sense anymore. The code is technically correct but completely opaque. You can't remember why anything was structured this way. Claude can't figure it out either — it starts guessing, and the guesses start breaking things. This is the scenario I keep seeing. And it's n
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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
I built a Vamana-based vector search engine in C++ called sembed-engine. Recently I made a pull request that sped up queries by 16x and builds by 9x. The algorithm stayed exactly the same. The recall stayed at 1.0. The number of visited nodes did not change. The speedup came from data layout. The original code stored vectors as separate objects pointed to by shared_ptr: struct Record { int64_t
The first time I implemented Vamana from the DiskANN paper, my approximate nearest neighbor index was slower than brute force. On tiny test fixtures, brute force took 0.27 ms per query. My Vamana implementation took 22.98 ms. That sounds absurd. ANN exists to skip work. The problem was not the algorithm. It was how I mapped the paper's abstractions to actual data structures. The DiskANN pseudocode
Hash tables feel like the default choice for membership tests. std::unordered_set promises average O(1) lookup, so we reach for it automatically. In performance-sensitive C++ code, that habit can cost you an order of magnitude. I ran into this while building a Vamana graph index for approximate nearest neighbor search. The algorithm needs to track visited nodes. Node ids are dense integers, and th
A production-grade embedded system enabling communication across speech, text, Morse, and haptic signals within a single unified pipeline. Official Project Page: https://anandps.in/projects/unified-assistive-communication-system GitHub Repository: https://github.com/anand-ps/unified-assistive-communication-system Problem Assistive communication systems are fragmented. Most tools so