engineering-culture

Thirty years after it first shipped, Windows' Task Manager still does the one thing its creator set out to do: make the internals of the operating system visible and actionable — and, once in a while, cause a little chaos while doing it. The tool that began as an 85 KB, scrappy utility written...

The UK government’s recent trial of AI coding assistants has delivered striking headline figures — developers reporting almost an hour saved per working day, equivalent to roughly 28 working days a year — but the programme also exposes the tough trade‑offs that come with rapid AI adoption in...