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Ask any software engineer with a decade of experience what it feels like to work in 2026, and you will hear the same tremor in the voice. It is not the fear of a machine becoming sentient. It is the quieter, more corrosive dread of becoming obsolete while still sitting at the keyboard. The technological cassandras will tell you to rejoice or to panic, depending on which cult they have sworn allegiance to. The pro-AI congregation preaches a gospel of frictionless creation where you whisper a wish to the machine and a fully formed application tumbles out. The anti-AI cult, meanwhile, is busy declaring a psychic death of craft, insisting that every line of generated code is a little soul-murder. Both are tedious. Both miss the geometry of the actual crisis. ...

If you have read anything I’ve written about artificial intelligence, you already know I don’t belong to either of the warring cults that dominate the conversation. I’m not a pro-AI cultist who believes a prompt box will think for him, code his dating app, and balance his chequebook while he vibe-codes his way to a yacht. I’m also not an anti-AI cultist who treats a statistical pattern-matcher as a soul-sucking digital monster birthed from theft. Both positions substitute hysteria for reasoned debate, and they both make it impossible to talk honestly about what these tools actually are. ...

Jesus of Nazareth stands before Pontius Pilatus. “What charges are you bringing against this man?” Pilatus asks of the Pharisees who hold Jesus for trial. “If he were not a criminal, we would not have brought him before you,” the Pharisees explain to the Roman Prefect. Pilatus sighs, but nobody, not even his servants, can hear it over the stormy noise of chatter, whispers, and rumours unfolding all over Jerusalem. “Take him yourselves! Judge him according to your own law,” Pilatus commands, dismissively. The head of Pharisees looks at his colleagues. They nod back at him. “We are not allowed to put anyone to death. Such is your law.” ...

The blue light of the laptop screen was the only thing illuminating the room, casting long shadows that clung to the corners like old doubts. He scrolled through an endless feed of algorithmic sludge: vacant smiles selling products he didn’t need, recycled outrage over issues he couldn’t fix, and shallow promises of liberation that looked suspiciously like a subscription fee. It was a river of noise, and he had been drowning in it for years. With a quiet click, he closed the laptop, plunging the room into a heavy, waiting darkness. He was in his early twenties, and the silence that followed felt more honest than anything the screen had to offer. Where to even begin? ...

If you spend enough time building software from the ground up, you inevitably develop a profound intolerance for ambiguity. Game development, in particular, is a ruthlessly unforgiving discipline. It is an intricate web of state machines, overlapping physics, and intersecting logic loops. If you do not construct a rigid, explicitly defined foundation for your game’s data, that web will very quickly decay into an unmaintainable tangle of digital duct tape. ...

In this article, I will dissect what are unmistakably the three most widely used game engines in PC gaming today: Unreal Engine 5 Unity 6 Godot 4.6 Before we get to the actual technical teardown, however, I need to establish some context. If you are expecting a standard, Windows-centric review from a studio developer who only cares about which engine has the easiest asset store to flip from, you are reading the wrong article. My baseline assumptions about what makes a piece of software good are fundamentally different from the industry standard, and it is important to understand why before I seemingly out of nowhere start panning multi-billion-dollar corporations for their software design. ...

I am a proud European, but, a lot more than that, I am also a citizen of the Republic of Poland. Watching what is happening west of us is difficult to put into words. When watching nations, that were formerly the greatest empires to have ever existed in human history – The British Empire, The German Empire, The French Empire – systematically orchestrating their own annihilation, you cannot just accept that at face value. You are forced to rationalise it. You invent comforting lies to explain why your neighbors are systematically eradicating their own kind. You have to do that, since they are your neighbours, who are nice. To readily accept and dispassionately observe their downfall would be a cruel betrayal of our good and long-lasting relationships. ...

On 10th September 2025, a shooter climbed onto the roof of a building at Utah State University, Utah, USA. He was positioned approximately 200 metres away from Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA (TPUSA). Charlie sat in his iconic ‘Prove Me Wrong’ tent, seated in front of a table, where he would invite university students to debate him. It was one of the many ordinary tours that Charlie was well-known for, having done them since the age of 18. ...

As always, before we get to meat of the matter, let’s first establish the terms. What is public school? In Europe, one most often does not think about school in terms of whether it is public or private, at least at the primary level. In Europe especially, public school is considered such an integral part of life that simply saying ‘school’ in the context of primary education is immediately understood. In places like Norway, private primary education is not even legal. This also means that public school is seldom examined critically. ...

By now, almost everyone in the industrialised world is aware of something known as ‘AI,’ or artificial intelligence for short. They might not use it, they might not have an idea of what it even is, but they are certain to be aware of the term. Among those who don’t know the particulars, they are largely indifferent. Those who are more technologically literate and curious about the technology, however, might have a strong opinion about it. People who don’t have a strong opinion about AI are just regular people. People who are convinced that AI is not just an industrial revolution, but something that will change the entire fabric society as we know it, we call the pro-AI cult. On the opposite side, we have people who say that AI will not do any of that, but rather cause the psychic, economic and creative death of the world as we know it; the anti-AI cult. ...