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The Next Two Years of Software Engineering

Exploring five critical questions shaping software engineering through 2026, with contrasting scenarios for each. These lenses help prepare for the evolving ...

Note on 24th September 2026

The more time I spend working with coding agents, the more convinced I am that they make software engineering even harder. We can do amazing things with them, but unlocking …

Overcommitted | Software Engineering and Tech Careers Insights

Overcommitted is where passion for the craft meets real talk about software engineering—from pull request philosophy and technical debt strategy to imposter syndrome and continuous learning, we are engineers committed to growing together and sharing the honest, thoughtful conversations that make you better at your job and your life.

You have to beat the models at something

In 2025, I wrote that software engineers ought to be assessed by “value over replacement”: not how much money they made for their company, but how much they…

The Bulk of Software Engineering is Just Plumbing

I read a post online recently about how some software engineer was asked to complete a technically complex, jargon-filled coding challenge over the...

The Case for Software Craftsmanship in the Era of Vibes

From the Zed Blog: Working toward genuine, quality software in an era where code production is not the constraint anymore.

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We develop private, efficient, and respectful software. We also do security research, reverse engineering, and develop network services.

Laws of Software Engineering

A collection of principles and patterns that shape software systems, teams, and decisions.

Opinion | The A.I. Disruption Has Arrived, and It Sure Is Fun

We’re entering a new renaissance of software development. We should all be excited, despite the uncertainties that lie ahead.

Opinion | The A.I. Disruption Has Arrived, and It Sure Is Fun

We’re entering a new renaissance of software development. We should all be excited, despite the uncertainties that lie ahead.

Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source...

Despite widespread adoption, the impact of AI tools on software development in the wild remains understudied. We conduct a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to understand how AI tools at the...

Why Software Engineering Is Indispensable in the Age of Coding Agents

Can AI make Software Engineering (SE) -- the discipline -- obsolete? And can it make software engineers -- the professionals -- redundant? This paper argues that the rise of capable AI coding...

We are all Product Engineers now | Seldo.com

Agents are eating the software development lifecycle from the bottom up — code generation already gone, review and ops following fast. What remains is figuring out what people actually want, which can't be automated or scaled. That job is called product engineering, it pays $240k, and nobody's training for it.

2026-04-25

Thoughts about design, code, technology and everything in between.