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
Three days of guided exercises. Today — no template, no "here's the complete code, just copy and paste." Just a brief: based on what you know — build your WishList contract. A personal WishList where only the owner can fulfill a wish. Small enough to finish in one session. Not so small that the decisions made themselves. Code: github.com/alena-dev-soft/solidity-learn/contracts/04day/ The first thi
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
Day 3: Voting, Sybil Attacks and Identity Day 3 was the first day that felt like actual software engineering rather than syntax tourism. The task: write a voting contract. Simple enough on the surface - until you start poking at the security model and realize the whole thing has serious gaps in its logic. What looked like a toy example turned out to be a good proxy for real system design problem
Day 2: Access Control Counter.sol - a little better than "Hello World", right? The goal: write a simple Counter contract - increment, decrement, reset - // SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT pragma solidity ^0.8.0; contract Counter { uint256 public count; address public owner; constructor() { owner = msg.sender; count = 0; } function increment() public {
A .NET Dinosaur in Web3 — Day 1: First Smart Contract I've been writing .NET for many years. Today I deployed my first smart contract. I'd like to share my journey into Web3 — every single day. I love what I do — really. I'm a .NET Dinosaur and Azure-passionate developer, Instead of drowning in YouTube tutorials and boring courses, I did something Think of it as a personal trainer who never judg