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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?
Published at
2026-05-20 19:45:48 UTCEvent JSON
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