<![CDATA[How does software engineering in IT looks as of May 2026?]]>How does software engineering in IT looks as of May 2026?

✔️ AI AI AI

✔️ AI driven layoffs not 1 or 2 employees but it comes in thousands of layoffs at a time

✔️ package manager getting compromised is daily event

✔️ cloud provider blocks your account randomly using AI agents and AI support doesn't understand anything

✔️ github hacked and all code is available for sale

✔️ AI submitted low quality patches overwhelming FLOSS devs

what else am i missing?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/5ff298ec-d64f-401e-b9c7-eeaad665613e/how-does-software-engineering-in-it-looks-as-of-may-2026RSS for NodeMon, 25 May 2026 08:20:51 GMTWed, 20 May 2026 19:45:48 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to How does software engineering in IT looks as of May 2026? on Thu, 21 May 2026 04:15:34 GMT]]>@georgeandrew @nixCraft

how about no

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/utf_7/statuses/116610625309513581https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/utf_7/statuses/116610625309513581Thu, 21 May 2026 04:15:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How does software engineering in IT looks as of May 2026? on Thu, 21 May 2026 04:13:49 GMT]]>@nixCraft

>github hacked and all code is available for sale

so i can finally release the stuff i made at my employer to flex at new job interviews? asking for a friend

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/utf_7/statuses/116610618429976843https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/utf_7/statuses/116610618429976843Thu, 21 May 2026 04:13:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How does software engineering in IT looks as of May 2026? on Thu, 21 May 2026 02:54:47 GMT]]>@nixCraft I've been working my ass off outside for 1/3 the money and sometimes I hate it but mostly it feels great.

Except for the excruciating pain it's great.

Hard labor and spondy don't mix very well but so far I'm managing it. I'm 50 and I haven't put in like this since I was 24 so I'm only able to do half a day but I'm building up.

Fuck it. Maybe letting AI write all that stupid shit is fine. Nobody actually wanted my expertise anyway. They just wanted a program they could hawk.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/crazyeddie/statuses/116610307653474593https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/crazyeddie/statuses/116610307653474593Thu, 21 May 2026 02:54:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How does software engineering in IT looks as of May 2026? on Thu, 21 May 2026 01:06:17 GMT]]>@nixCraft Accurate

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://furry.engineer/users/linkachus17/statuses/116609881028816240https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://furry.engineer/users/linkachus17/statuses/116609881028816240Thu, 21 May 2026 01:06:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How does software engineering in IT looks as of May 2026? on Wed, 20 May 2026 23:56:09 GMT]]>@nixCraft

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/renardboy/statuses/116609605270996787https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/renardboy/statuses/116609605270996787Wed, 20 May 2026 23:56:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How does software engineering in IT looks as of May 2026? on Wed, 20 May 2026 23:53:09 GMT]]>@nixCraft I love how the poisoned vs code extension name is prominently displayed

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.outhill.cc/ap/users/116588544244681879/statuses/116609593470679968https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.outhill.cc/ap/users/116588544244681879/statuses/116609593470679968Wed, 20 May 2026 23:53:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How does software engineering in IT looks as of May 2026? on Wed, 20 May 2026 22:49:53 GMT]]>@nixCraft Doing BDD by hand and referring to my retirement savings as „euthanasia fund”.

Same old, same old.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.community/users/slotos/statuses/116609344684253014https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.community/users/slotos/statuses/116609344684253014Wed, 20 May 2026 22:49:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How does software engineering in IT looks as of May 2026? on Wed, 20 May 2026 22:38:46 GMT]]>@nixCraft i think you missed the incomprehensible "productivity" gains that *totally* aren't based on pure vibes]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.translunar.academy/objects/ab3cb788-3469-40cc-abae-5b508b65b879https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.translunar.academy/objects/ab3cb788-3469-40cc-abae-5b508b65b879Wed, 20 May 2026 22:38:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How does software engineering in IT looks as of May 2026? on Wed, 20 May 2026 21:28:35 GMT]]>@nixCraft Google is doing like that husband who cut off his sexual attributes to spite his wife.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/faro49/statuses/116609025043552598https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/faro49/statuses/116609025043552598Wed, 20 May 2026 21:28:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How does software engineering in IT looks as of May 2026? on Wed, 20 May 2026 21:01:31 GMT]]>@n1 @nixCraft a true classic reply I also hear too many times nowadays..

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://urusai.social/ap/users/116430373895248336/statuses/116608918601437416https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://urusai.social/ap/users/116430373895248336/statuses/116608918601437416Wed, 20 May 2026 21:01:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How does software engineering in IT looks as of May 2026? on Wed, 20 May 2026 20:43:51 GMT]]>@nixCraft
Still not making money for vendors.
In reality no saving for users, at same quality, actually increased cost.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.ie/users/raymaccarthy/statuses/116608849129303443https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.ie/users/raymaccarthy/statuses/116608849129303443Wed, 20 May 2026 20:43:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How does software engineering in IT looks as of May 2026? on Wed, 20 May 2026 20:40:55 GMT]]>@nixCraft and they want us to like AI and promote it. The cons have far outweighed the pros. Search is marginally easier, but it also makes things up. Even the good is only good sometimes. Everything else is worse.

I don’t know how this bubble stays in tact. It should have popped 6+ months ago.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/bootlessbuck/statuses/116608837588525261https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/bootlessbuck/statuses/116608837588525261Wed, 20 May 2026 20:40:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How does software engineering in IT looks as of May 2026? on Wed, 20 May 2026 20:36:27 GMT]]>@nixCraft

- intellectual property theft is still illegal and harshly prosecuted if done by a human, but accepted in practice if a software program does it.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/mbpaz/statuses/116608820036324874https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/mbpaz/statuses/116608820036324874Wed, 20 May 2026 20:36:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How does software engineering in IT looks as of May 2026? on Wed, 20 May 2026 20:18:53 GMT]]>@PepVerbsNouns @nixCraft

High quality (ancient) vulnerabilities found in system software...

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/worik/statuses/116608750947116561https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/worik/statuses/116608750947116561Wed, 20 May 2026 20:18:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How does software engineering in IT looks as of May 2026? on Wed, 20 May 2026 20:15:09 GMT]]>@nixCraft This is simply not what I understand under pure software engineering. It's software engineering with extra bloat, slop and complicated Big Tech dependencies that cause a bunch of extra problems.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mathstodon.xyz/users/Microfractal/statuses/116608736240421997https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mathstodon.xyz/users/Microfractal/statuses/116608736240421997Wed, 20 May 2026 20:15:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How does software engineering in IT looks as of May 2026? on Wed, 20 May 2026 20:12:19 GMT]]>@nixCraft I'm really tired of it

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://lgbtqia.space/ap/users/116296514670041122/statuses/116608725151810565https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://lgbtqia.space/ap/users/116296514670041122/statuses/116608725151810565Wed, 20 May 2026 20:12:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How does software engineering in IT looks as of May 2026? on Wed, 20 May 2026 20:04:45 GMT]]>@nixCraft @ghalldev Every manager grinning and saying “I LOVE AI HA HA HA” in every company meeting like they have a gun to their head

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sfba.social/users/drahardja/statuses/116608695345520981https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sfba.social/users/drahardja/statuses/116608695345520981Wed, 20 May 2026 20:04:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How does software engineering in IT looks as of May 2026? on Wed, 20 May 2026 20:01:04 GMT]]>@nixCraft My favourite one that I hear a lot "Just ask AI...." when a task needs to be done.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/n1/statuses/116608680869142772https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/n1/statuses/116608680869142772Wed, 20 May 2026 20:01:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How does software engineering in IT looks as of May 2026? on Wed, 20 May 2026 19:54:50 GMT]]>@nixCraft yes, in spain you cannot access github (and a lot of other sites) any day that there is a match of "La Liga"

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/eickot/statuses/116608656407299902https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/eickot/statuses/116608656407299902Wed, 20 May 2026 19:54:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How does software engineering in IT looks as of May 2026? on Wed, 20 May 2026 19:53:05 GMT]]>@nixCraft Two privilege escalation bugs in the Linux kernel publicized within the same month? Could affect software engineering tangentially at least.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.art/users/PepVerbsNouns/statuses/116608649524342858https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.art/users/PepVerbsNouns/statuses/116608649524342858Wed, 20 May 2026 19:53:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How does software engineering in IT looks as of May 2026? on Wed, 20 May 2026 19:49:09 GMT]]>GitHub confirms breach after hackers put stolen source code up for sale

Attention Required! | Cloudflare

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Incident Report: May 19, 2026- GCP Account Suspension https://blog.railway.com/p/incident-report-may-19-2026-gcp-account-outage

rest you can search it lol

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/nixCraft/statuses/116608634040329865https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/nixCraft/statuses/116608634040329865Wed, 20 May 2026 19:49:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How does software engineering in IT looks as of May 2026? on Wed, 20 May 2026 19:47:00 GMT]]>@nixCraft Lol.

I miss the "if AI goes wrong is your fault", like if there was a choice to decide whether to use it or not.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://masto.es/users/Fedihacker/statuses/116608625571317518https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://masto.es/users/Fedihacker/statuses/116608625571317518Wed, 20 May 2026 19:47:00 GMT