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
This is the third post in my Google Cloud Next '26 (Las Vegas) recap series. You can find the previous posts here 👇 Part 1: [Google Cloud Next '26 Recap #1] Hands-On with the Agentic Hack Zone Part 2: [Google Cloud Next '26 Recap #2] Three Unique Booths I Tried at the EXPO In Parts 1 and 2, I covered my experiences on the EXPO floor. This time, I'd like to switch gears and share one of the se
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In my previous article about treating architecture documentation as a first-class asset, I had a great discussion in the comments about enforcing architectural rules. I promised to share materials from my recent Google Developer Groups workshop. The workshop is now finished! Here is the story of how I built an AI Quality Gate, how it helped me solve the internal "CEO, CTO, CFO, CISO" conflict, and
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
In my previous article, I documented how I installed Terraform on macOS using Homebrew and fixed a Zsh autocomplete issue. In this article, I am going to be using terraform to provision, update, and destroy a simple set of infrastructure using the sample configuration provided by hashicorp The goal is to understand the basic Terraform workflow: Write configuration Authenticate to Google Cloud Ini
On April 30th I got an email from Google about something called GEAR, their new program for building AI agents using ADK, the Agent Development Kit. I signed up, watched the intro video, and had a strange feeling of recognition. The pattern was familiar. Define tools. Write descriptions. Connect an AI model to those tools. Let the model decide which tool to call based on what the user asks. I buil
VotePath -- an AI-powered multilingual voting guide for first-time voters. The Problem: Why Don't People Vote? What is VotePath? 🤖 Gemini-Powered AI Assistant: A conversational AI built with the Google Gemini API that answers specific election queries in real-time. 🛠️ The Tech Stack Building the UI components and wiring up the Gemini SDK went smoothly using an intent-driven development approach.