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
For years, the answer to "how much RAM do I need?" was always "more than you have." 4GB became a joke. 8GB became "the bare minimum." 16GB became the new baseline. 32GB started feeling reasonable for developers and gamers. The ceiling kept moving, and the industry was happy to sell you more every time it did. Now, Apple has released the MacBook Neo with 8GB as the base configuration. I've been wat
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