How does software engineering in IT looks as of May 2026?

[nixcraft@mastodon.social]

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?

[fedihacker@masto.es]

@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.

[nixcraft@mastodon.social]

GitHub confirms breach after hackers put stolen source code up for sale

Attention Required! | Cloudflare

(cybernews.com)

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

[pepverbsnouns@mastodon.art]

@nixCraft Two privilege escalation bugs in the Linux kernel publicized within the same month? Could affect software engineering tangentially at least.

[eickot@mastodon.social]

@nixCraft yes, in spain you cannot access github (and a lot of other sites) any day that there is a match of "La Liga"

[n1@fosstodon.org]

@nixCraft My favourite one that I hear a lot "Just ask AI...." when a task needs to be done.

[drahardja@sfba.social]

@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

[xorlou@lgbtqia.space]

@nixCraft I'm really tired of it

[microfractal@mathstodon.xyz]

@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.

[worik@mastodon.social]

@PepVerbsNouns @nixCraft

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

[mbpaz@mas.to]

@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.

[bootlessbuck@mastodon.social]

@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.

[raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie]

@nixCraft
Still not making money for vendors.
In reality no saving for users, at same quality, actually increased cost.

[john_ligher@urusai.social]

@n1 @nixCraft a true classic reply I also hear too many times nowadays..

[faro49@mastodon.social]

@nixCraft Google is doing like that husband who cut off his sexual attributes to spite his wife.

[sunz@social.translunar.academy]

@nixCraft i think you missed the incomprehensible "productivity" gains that *totally* aren't based on pure vibes

[slotos@toot.community]

@nixCraft Doing BDD by hand and referring to my retirement savings as „euthanasia fund”.

Same old, same old.

[boombastic@social.outhill.cc]

@nixCraft I love how the poisoned vs code extension name is prominently displayed

[renardboy@mastodon.social]

@nixCraft

[linkachus17@furry.engineer]

@nixCraft Accurate