Are We Headed to Another Economic Crash in 2026?
The rapid depreciation of the Sri Lankan Rupee (LKR) against the US Dollar (USD) has resurfaced as a major macroeconomic concern
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When the government started, digital strategy was positioned as a panacea for both economic and social issues. That very digital agency has failed pretty badly. Hackers and phishers are chaos monkeying the systems and proving that both the digital and financial strategies are badly broken, with even the volunteering digital and financial advisors acting as chaos monkeys.
I see many people confusing metacognition with chittanupassana.
They are entirely different tools.
Metacognition is about controlling and optimizing your cognitive processes to drive execution. It is a tactical framework for performance.
Chittanupassana demands pure, non-judgmental observation of the mind without trying to fix anything. It breaks automatic, habitual reactions.
I think you need both for true mastery.
Optimize the work with metacognition, but master the self with chittanupassana.
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CYA engineering is a long-standing plague in the software industry. I have seen it even among senior professionals. It is a defense mechanism that kills transparency.
AI is remarkably good at solving this. When you ask a hard question, you get an evidence-based response.
Human deception is a much more complicated issue than AI hallucination. Hallucination is a technical quirk; lying is a structural failure.
It is a myth that AI will replace intelligent people. My experience with deep engineering projects confirms this. It cannot replace high-level talent now or in the near future.
AI is a formidable teammate. It acts as a pair programmer, designer, reviewer, and QA expert. It knows every best practice, standard, and principle by heart.
To work alongside a teammate of this caliber, the engineer must be much more skilled. You need deep technical depth and domain knowledge.
In the old norm, these skills defined an Architect or a Tech Lead. Now, every engineer must operate at that level just to prompt effectively.
It is a strategic mistake to stop hiring interns. We must give them room to learn advanced engineering principles on real projects. If they don't learn to orchestrate AI now, they will never lead later.
AI will not only challenge the entry level jobs, but also more senior positions.
The old way of working is long gone.
Old way of software business models are dying.
Experinace no longer matter. Domain knowlege and expertise does.
The recent USD 2.5 million heist from the Sri Lankan Treasury is a national embarrassment. It's not just a technical glitch. It is a catastrophic failure of basic security protocol at the highest level of government.
I think it's clear that the External Resources Department (ERD) was caught sleeping. Hackers intercepted emails between the Treasury and Australian creditors to divert debt repayments. This is Business Email Compromise (BEC) 101, yet our "experts" let it happen with millions of taxpayer dollars on the line.
The Illusion of Security
I find it pathetic that we are pushing for a "cash-lite" economy while our own Treasury can't even secure a Gmail-level communication chain. If hackers can sit in the middle of a sovereign debt repayment, they are likely sitting in every other ministry too.
The government keeps blaming "misinformation," but the only fact that matters is that the money is gone. This wasn't a sophisticated "realmhacking" operation. It was a failure of human oversight and outdated infrastructure.
The Cost of Incompetence
I believe this breach erodes what little international trust we have left after debt restructuring. Creditors will now question if our digital systems are even fit for purpose.
Digital transformation without security transformation is just an invitation for theft. We need more than a CID investigation; we need a complete purge of legacy systems and the incompetent protocols that allow "email interception" to become a national crisis.