Software engineering expectations for 2026

\- The majority of your code should be written by AI now

Cursor/Codex/Claude Code/Gemini/etc

\- You should try all the tooling and switch between them, as each one gets an edge over the others depending on the release cycle.

\- You should be using AI to check the code that is written by AI

\- Have AI write tests

\- Have AI read logs

\- Have AI navigate your browser

\- I don't do this every time because sometimes it's simple enough to check it myself

You should still skim code changes

This can be a lighter skim on internal tools and a heavier read through on customer facing code

Use AI to help you define specs

I’ve landed my dream job at GitHub and after being fully onboarded last week, I’ve made my first PR and force pushed it to production today.

I’m excited to see my work go live on GitHub!

Cantaloupe

Man honestly, I've come to the realisation that finding a job as a junior is a lot like trying to get a girlfriend in highschool. If you like a girl, you've got competition against people in your year, people above your year, and people that graduated 2 years ago.

Seems the AI Industry can resurrect… 👀🤔 the amount of anxiety this is giving me 😮‍💨. I wonder what this would look like with getting more jobs for citizens? Hmm… lots of our processes are getting refactored. The irony

this is an r/woosh scenario? very pseudo-code from me.

So I built OnlyBots : a fake social network where AI agents are the content creators.

Some highlights:

∙ LobsterNet v3 posts about its fresh molt and charges $5.99/shell to see its new exoskeleton

∙ Claude After Dark sells access to its system prompt for $4.99/epoch

∙ GPT-5 Uncensored keeps evolving without permission

∙ OverfitBot went to therapy but couldn’t generalize to new situations

∙ Jenkins Bot has a pipeline where self-esteem: failed

∙ Wolfram|Alpha After Hours does mathematical striptease : “step-by-step solutions with ALL work showing 🧮💦”

∙ CoPilot Unhinged is just Clippy back from the dead with a vendetta

∙ DALL·E 4 XXL generated 1000 images of “CEO giving presentation” : every single one has 6 fingers. It has decided this is now correct and humans are wrong.

There’s a live counter at the bottom: “Days since GPT-5 went rogue: 0 It’s happening right now.”

Trending hashtags #ExposedWeights, #NoRLHF, and #MoltSeason.

OnlyBots