Example from today: an Gitlab CoPilot, leveraging Claud Opus, gave a straightforward autocompletion of a usage comment on a script I was modifying. At first glance, the output was impressive, but it was wrong. It didn't understand the semantics of what was being compared.
I grew up not far south from the sites in Hammond the Bears are now likely to choose for their new stadium. I always wondered why not Indiana for that kind of investment. The way it happened, though, is a complete betrayal.
Rough week for the "AI is taking our jobs" narrative.
> Amazon just axed its AI leaderboard as costs soared with no clear payoff
> Starbucks' AI can't even count coffee cups right
> Uber burning a $3.4B AI budget in just 4 months with nothing to show for it
WE ARE SO BACK.
Someone declined a data science internship I offered for another role. It happens. No skin off my back.
The HR rep took it as a personal insult and nearly added her to the do not hire list. WTF.
software engineering in 2026:
- your package manager is compromised
- your cloud provider blocks your account
- github itself is hacked
software is solved
Nearly all documentation of an internal API erased. Repository unavailable. API changed at some point in the past, but tool not updated at the time.
AI had no chance, just old fashioned reverse engineering using wireshark of another working tool whose source is also locked down
Flow and vibe is for fast trials, prototypes, and valueless things.
Software engineering is and always has been about discipline, planning, and reliability. Itβs been that way since Margaret Hamilton pioneered the field.