Software Engineering in 2026


Note: No AI is used in writing my blogs. So there is soul behind every (imperfect) word. And meaning behind every (suboptimal) sentence.


Complexity of software vs. Efforts required graph

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AI Making many things a commodity - including creativity

  • Intelligence is a commodity. Agency is the new prime skill (along with taste and other qualities). Agency has always been the true distinguisher, but atleast many people could benefit from intelligence alone for many centuries. Not anymore.
  • Software is a commodity. Creativity is a commodity.
  • The world will never have zero problems. So we gotta work on newer problems. Solved all cancers? Unify the physics theories. Done that too? Extend our lifespan. Now invent the time machine. Now expand to all galaxies and other universes. We’ll think the next ones once we do all these.


The Jenga-tower framework

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A new idea you can use to make AI create a report (like .md file) listing all the files in your codebase in a way, that describes what files are the most fundamental and what files are built on top of it. Like a Jenga-tower.

If you edit the files at the bottom, you’ll have to edit all the files on top of it. That’s the core idea. Obviously there are layers to this too, a Jenga tower is more linear and codebases can be much more tree-like. But having this idea to create an overview helped me a lot.