r/softwareengineering

Most of the biggest tech outages of the last thirty years started with something you could fit on a sticky note, a few characters or one setting or a command typed late at night. This page follows a few of them from the people they hit back to the change that started it.

Looking for recommendations on AI-powered product development partners that can actually stay involved from discovery through scaling, not just build an MVP and disappear. We’re planning an e-commerce platform with some agentic features (automated inventory decisions, personalized shopping flows). So far the names...

[https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007](https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007) Mad respect to these brilliant people who paved the way for many of us.

Hi folks, Stjepan from Manning here. The mods gave us permission to share this. A feature can be well-designed, tested, and delivered on schedule, and still leave the user’s problem untouched. What interests me is how engineers recognize that before the team has spent three months building it. Take a request for...

University of Maryland Computer Science Professor Mihai Pop and Postdoctoral Associate Marcus Fedarko are answering questions about their bioinformatics and computational biology research tomorrow! Mihai's lab has developed software tools widely used in the field of metagenomics. Submit a question:...