[cglace]

In all of these posts I fail to see how this is engineering anymore. It seems like we are one step away from taking ourselves out of the picture completely.

[bckr]

I don’t write binaries, assembly, or C. If I don’t have to write an application, I’m okay with that.

I still have to write the requirements, design, and acceptance criteria.

I still have to gather the requirements from stakeholders, figure out why those will or will not work, provision infra, figure out how to glue said infra together, test and observe and debug the whole thing, get feedback from stakeholders…

I have plenty of other stuff to do.

And if you automate 99% of the above work?

Then the requirements are going to get 100Xed. Put all the bells and whistles in. Make it break the laws of physics. Make it never ever crash and always give incredibly detailed feedback to the end users. Make it beautiful and faster than thought itself.

I’m not worried about taking myself out of the loop.

[draebek]

I have to say that I am worried that, by taking myself out of the loop for the 99%, I'm going to get worse at the 1% of things that occasionally fall into my lap because the LLM can't seem to do them. I think software engineering is a skill that is "use it or lose it", like many others.

There's also the question of whether I will enjoy my craft if it is reduced to, say, mostly being a business analyst and requirements gatherer. Though the people paying me probably don't care very much about that question.

[cglace]

Thanks for sharing. I hope you are right. It's hard to stay objective as things are changing so quickly.