What a week it was at CppCon 2026 in Aurora, Colorado! The lineup of keynote speakers was phenomenal. Herb Sutter was unable to present his talk this year, but we are incredibly grateful to Andrei Alexandrescu for stepping in to help the conference by sharing his thoughts.
Andrei’s talk, titled Your Next 20 Days of Systems Engineering, examined the rapid transition in software engineering where AI systems can generate substantial amounts of code with little effort while inspection and validation remain difficult. His talk explored how this shifts the emphasis from authoring programs to understanding system structure and long term evolution. The central theme argues that managing complexity at scale is our main challenge ahead.
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