Software engineering is acquiring a "second material" in the form of AI models that carry tolerances — sometimes hallucinating, sometimes not — unlike deterministic code that "always works, or it just…
Public GitHub pull requests with "spine" in the title rose 20-fold in the first nine months of 2026 compared with all of 2025, according to an analysis by software engineer Hillel Wayne, who attribute…
Formal methods consultant Hillel Wayne argues that software engineering earns the title of 'real engineering' due to its rigor, while noting that version control is uniquely sophisticated in software …
Developers are generating twice as much code as six months ago, raising concerns about quality, reliability, and tech debt. A rational fix exists, but few are acting on it, as discussed in a keynote t…