alt Hacker Newswe've never seen a profession drive themselves so aggressively to irrelevance. software engineering will always exist, but it's amazing the pace to which pressure against the profession is rising. 2026 will be a very happy new year indeed for those paying the salaries. :)
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> we've never seen a profession drive themselves so aggressively to irrelevance.
Should we be trying to put the genie back in the bottle? If not, what exactly are you suggesting?
Even if we all agreed to stop using AI tools today, what about the rest of world? Will everybody agree to stop using it? Do you think that is even a remote possibility?
Software Engineers will still exist.
Software Devs not so much.
There is a huge difference between the two and they are not interchangeable.
Don't care have too much to do must automate away my today responsibilities so I can do more tomorrow trvst the plqn
Also it really baffles me how many are actually in on the hype train. Its a lot more than the crypto bros back in the day. Good thing AI still cant reason and innovate stuff. Also leaking credentials is a felony in my country so I also wont ever attach it to my codebases.
We've been giving our work away to each other for free as open source to help improve each other's productivity for 30+ years now and that's only made our profession more valuable.