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The Bottleneck Moved, and Most Teams Haven't Noticed For twenty years, writing code was the constraint. Requirements, architecture, review, and deployment all had time to keep pace because the writing step was slow enough to be the natural governor of the system. That's no longer true. AI coding assistants and autonomous agents have accelerated code generation dramatically. CircleCI's 2026 State
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
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