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
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
In web development, there is one golden rule: Never trust user input. Whether it is a login form, a search bar, or an environment variable, unvalidated data is a leading cause of bugs and security vulnerabilities. For a long time, developers relied on manual if/else checks or complex Regex to validate data. But then came Zod. Imagine you have an endpoint that receives a user profile. Without a sch