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SimianSci | 27 days ago

Software Development might be dead, but Software Engineering is alive and well.

Anyone seriously interfacing with AI code generation can tell you that understanding how software is composed and architected is, and will continue to be, a requirement to building anything worthwhile. These systems are impressive but we are a far ways away from "Magical Genie Wishes" as a means of creating software.

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recursivedoubts|27 days ago

And where do people think "Software Engineers" come from?

Do they spring fully formed from Zeus' forehead?

pjmlp|27 days ago

From universities, having taken the degree, and in some countries the engineering oath as well.

Where graduates learn during a course of three to five years, depending on the country, that Software Engineering isn't only coding.

9dev|27 days ago

How can you be so sure of that? We moved from completing the next word in a sentence to hey Claude, build me a SaaS awfully quickly. Are you willing to bet your career on a pace slowdown?