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?

@nixCraft My favourite one that I hear a lot "Just ask AI...." when a task needs to be done.
@n1 @nixCraft a true classic reply I also hear too many times nowadays..