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All of these articles about AI’s impact on engineering are so short sighted.

Software engineering is a means to an end. The computers need to do something and software engineering is how we’ve traditionally done that.

But it should be abundantly clear that this is no longer required. Before AI, engineers needed to care about every line of code. With current AI, engineers need only worry about larger architectural issues. But at this rate, even those concerns will be driven by AI. One can easily imagine a world where relevant architectural trade-offs are surfaced to prompters. We’ll live in a world very soon where no human will have to concern themselves with code.

So while the premise of this blog post may be true, it’s a bit like complaining that hopeless carriages don’t take to stirrups very well.