Unless you live somewhere in the woods and have no access to the internet, you have seen many videos or heard people saying that AI will soon replace software developers. Is there any truth in this?

But before I answer this question, let me explain why many people are convinced that it will happen. But to explain this, I need to explain how traditional software development works to understand what has changed.

Let’s take a website as an example. Typically, work starts with a working prototype. Any interactive website requires a frontend and backend. Frontend requires design. Unless the website is very trivial, it requires 3 different skills and typically 3 different teams.

Firstly, the design team approves a draft

There have been many talks recently about AI replacing humans. Just put 1 – 2 trillion dollars more into it, and it will surpass any human. But is this really the case? For example, imagine that you don’t know anything about water. You asked AI the following question: “What can you do with water?” And AI may answer that you can put it on fire with matches.

And because you don’t know anything about water, you assume it is true and act on this information. Then, later, to find out that it is completely wrong. Moreover, very often, if you think before acting on information provided by AI, you can find a contradiction in AI’s answer.

As a result, there

In a strange twist of fate, our company got Crowdstrike on all our computers. I will not explain why due to privacy reasons, but we got it. And oh boy, there is a lot to talk about. Let’s begin.

The first thing everyone notices immediately is that our computers are slower. I have my home computer that was on the low-end side when I built it new in 2018. And I have a top-of-the-line computer at work that is a couple of years younger. Many tasks my home computer does faster. Like opening Task Manager or the Open dialog in any application. You just feel that the computer has become slower.

One may say that it is pure psychology. “You

Some time ago, I wrote an article about Apple’s Face ID and how it is extremely unreliable and frustrating. I also mentioned that the software quality of Apple products has reduced considerably over time. But I absolutely didn’t expect what happened after that.

I installed iOS 26 on my phone, and it is the first time that I absolutely do not like the design from Apple. Apple always had very high standards, and I love every iOS design starting from iPhone 4. Apple was pretty much the reference on how to do it right. Until now.

It is just awful. Initially, it looked to me like Windows 3.1. A lot of borders around each button. A lot of new

As probably everybody knows, Google created a real monopoly on the internet search. Many people don’t even know about other search engines. To a certain degree, the word “Google” means to search the internet. I think most of us have heard the phrase “Google it”.

But as we know, nothing is forever, and it looks like that monopoly may end soon. But before I dive deeper into what’s changing, let's see the history of how people find information on the internet, how Google took its place, and what problems it had to face.

History

A long time ago, before any search engine existed, when you needed to find specific information on the internet, you had to know the website that

Today, Skype is officially dead, and this makes me a bit sad. And I would like to dedicate this post to its memory.

I still remember the day I started to use it. I lived too far from my parents and relatives, who were living literally on the opposite side of the Earth. I had to use international calls and pay from $1 to $3 per minute, and as you can imagine, even a few and relatively short calls per month can easily cost $100 or more. There were special dial cards, but they were cumbersome to use, and some were pretty scammy.

I tried several solutions for internet calls, including one that was supplied with Windows, but the audio

I was asked to help with a Unreal project. That project has an issue with shadows from any tree. When the player is close to the shadow from that tree and moves around the shadow will change its shape. It becomes bigger or smaller depending on the direction you are looking.

Let me explain how trees are implemented. Each tree consists of a static mesh that represents branches and a static mesh that represents the canopy of the tree. Static mesh for the canopy has a material that replaces static mesh with many billboards that are leaves of the tree. It looks nice and easy to change because by changing the static mesh of the canopy you are changing the

I think every one of us can tell that AI is very dumb sometimes. Sometimes it outputs just utter nonsense or in simple terms - garbage. Sometimes it is smart and very helpful and sometimes it is as dumb as a chair.

For example, one day I asked AI about a book written by a specific author, but I didn’t remember the name of that book. Then AI said that the name of the book is “Wolf and Tractor”. It looks quite strange, especially if you take into account that the author died in the 18th century and there were no tractors in at that time.

And yes, I double-checked the internet because there was a chance that the word

I have a device that has an HDMI connector and can output to monitor and I have the image that I need to be displayed at the center of the screen as big as possible while keeping its aspect ratio. The device can output a picture that is 1920 by 1080 and the image has resolution 640 by 480.

Effectively we need to find a single ratio that we will multiply the width and height of that image and that image will fill the whole vertical or horizontal space. It must be a single ratio because we need to keep the aspect ratio of the image and not stretch or shrink it in a single dimension.

Firstly, we divide 1920