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brcmthrowawaytoday at 6:34 PM3 repliesview on HN

Incredible... software engineers will be joining the breadline soon as managers, executives and PMs take over deliverables.

The world will look very different on Jan 1st 2027.


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mccoybtoday at 6:39 PM

I hope this is satire.

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hatefulmorontoday at 6:46 PM

Maybe I just lack imagination, but I don't really know how jobs are supposed to solidify around the role of giving prompts to agents and then looking at the results. I mean, engineers will be in the breadline because their role was simply to prompt the agents.. only to be superseded by managers or executives who no longer manage engineers but themselves prompt the agents? And, for this previously considered obsolete function which they do presumably by copy/pasting requirements from their email inbox, they will be paid by someone who doesn't know that they could just be talking to their own agents?

Sorry if I misunderstand the point, just trying to understand.

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slopinthebagtoday at 8:44 PM

It's not like managers and executives and PM's are the only people who can prompt an AI. And experienced software developer will be much more effective at using an AI to generate code compared to someone who isn't. So why would we expect the former in the breadline and the latter not?

If anything, I'd be more concerned about the leadership team being out in the cold. Why do I need a PM, or a manager, or a CEO if I can ship products myself?