This is the transcript of my talk at OMSCS Conference 2026 Hello, everyone. I'm Senthil Kumaran, a software developer at Uber. I've been programming for more than 20 years. I completed my OMSCS specialization in 2019 with specializations related to Computer Vision and Computational Systems. I had taken twelve courses in all, and I've stayed close to the program ever since. This is my first presentation at an academic conference, and I'm grateful to be here. I chose this topic last year, when we were being bombarded daily with new developments in large language models. The chorus was loud and clear: programming is dead. The industry, or at least parts of it, wants you to believe that. But if you are a programmer, and especially if you work alongside really good programmers in serious open-source projects or in industry, you know how far that claim is from the truth. Things have changed. Things have improved. But it is nowhere near what people who don't program think it is. So, that's…
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