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We are redesigning the Queue website. Take a look and let us know what you think. June 1, 2026 Volume 24, issue 2 PDF Rethinking software health in the age of AI Generative AI is dramatically accelerating software development, allowing teams to generate and modify code faster than ever before. For decades, software engineering has focused on managing technical debt—how code structure and implementation make systems harder to change.

We are redesigning the Queue website. Take a look and let us know what you think. May 26, 2026 Volume 24, issue 2 PDF Examining the most common misconceptions Generative AI is reshaping software engineering—but the narrative has gotten ahead of the evidence. Marketing claims, anecdotal wins, and misread studies have given rise to a set of persistent myths that are quietly driving poor decisions about AI adoption, tooling, and how to measure success.

We are redesigning the Queue website. Take a look and let us know what you think. May 18, 2026 Volume 24, issue 2 PDF A “hitchhiker’s guide” for product managers Most product managers (PMs) working in software today feel it—that dizzying sense of standing at the base of a mountain, staring up at a new way of working and wondering where to even begin. Generative AI has fast arrived in the software engineering workforce, with little guidance and high expectations.

We are redesigning the Queue website. Take a look and let us know what you think. May 4, 2026 Volume 24, issue 2 PDF AI Literacy Redefining work, identity, and the future of craft AI is changing software development in a way that forces a more uncomfortable question: Which parts of the job are still worth doing? Developers are making deliberate choices about what to keep, what to delegate, and what they no longer recognize as their work.

We are redesigning the Queue website. Take a look and let us know what you think. April 27, 2026 Volume 24, issue 2 PDF From web-scale extraction to LLM-augmented intelligence This paper traces the evolution of knowledge graphs across three generations: entity-based knowledge graphs (KGs), text-rich KGs, and the emerging convergence of KGs and large language models.

We are redesigning the Queue website. Take a look and let us know what you think. April 20, 2026 Volume 24, issue 2 PDF Every project (and family) needs one. Long-running projects are a journey. An IDD (important decisions doc) captures knowledge and decisions gathered along the way. It records the what and why of decisions, as well as the rationale for rejecting alternatives.

We are redesigning the Queue website. Take a look and let us know what you think. April 13, 2026 Volume 24, issue 2 PDF Faith-based computing versus the unnatural science Whether we ask an LLM or a recent graduate to type the code is less important than knowing what the code does, how it was built, and when to look under the hood. Dear KV, The hype cycle that is “AI” seems as if it will never end.

We are redesigning the Queue website. Take a look and let us know what you think. April 5, 2026 Volume 24, issue 1 PDF Usability is core to effective security controls Cybersecurity is not just a problem facing enterprises. Individual users face similar risks without expertise and support to back them up.

We are redesigning the Queue website. Take a look and let us know what you think. April 2, 2026 Volume 24, issue 1 PDF Lessons learned from building a second-generation system You know something matters when it has its own Wikipedia entry.

We are redesigning the Queue website. Take a look and let us know what you think. March 30, 2026 Volume 24, issue 1 PDF  The code you write can’t possibly predict every change that comes along Anyone who works as a programmer is bound to hear the term future proofing fairly early in their career. Future proofing! It sounds like a great idea.