[joshuaisaact]

Couldn't disagree with this article more. I think the future of software engineering is more T-shaped.

Look at the 'Product Engineer' roles we are seeing spreading in forward-thinking startups and scaleups.

That's the future of SWE I think. SWEs take on more PM and design responsibilities as part of the existing role.

[reeredfdfdf]

I agree. In many cases it's probably easier for a developer to become more of a product person, than for a product person to become a dev. Even with LLM's you still need to have some technical skills & be able to read code to handle technical tasks effectively.

Of course things might look different when the product is something that requires really deep domain knowledge.

[jzig]

I don't think the two are mutually exclusive! e.g. a T-shaped product engineer on one side and a T-shaped SRE on the other. Both will kind of compact what used to be multiple roles/responsibilities together. The good news (and my prediction) IMO is the engineering won't be going away as much as the other roles.

[pjmlp]

Or architects, someone has to draw the nice diagrams and spec files for the robots.

However, like in automated factories, only a small percentage is required to stay around.