Is software engineering dead?>The consensus is a resounding yes, the job has completely changed, mostly for the better. Devs are shifting from being code writers to being AI managers or "agent managers.">The most common workflow involves running multiple Claude sessions simultaneously, like a team of junior devs. You spend the start of your day crafting high-level prompts for your tasks, and then the rest of the day is spent reviewing, testing, and integrating the AI-generated code. This confirms OP's feeling of being "differently busy." While actual keyboard time for coding is way down, time spent on planning, prompt engineering, and especially code reviews is way up.>The payoff is huge. Many report finishing a day's or even a week's worth of tasks by noon, freeing up time for higher-level strategic thinking, planning the next day's work, or just enjoying more free time. However, you still have to be the senior engineer in the room; the AI can be confidently wrong, use outdated libraries, or get lazy, so manual oversight is critical.>Pro-tips from the thread: * Go hands-free: Many are ditching typing for voice-to-text tools like Whispr Flow or Superwhisper to dictate prompts, citing typing as the new bottleneck. * Stop the sycophant: To get Claude to challenge your ideas, give it a strong persona in the system prompt, like "You are an elite Staff Software Engineer who pushes back on bad ideas." * Work in parallel: Use git worktrees to manage multiple AI-driven tasks on the same repo at once.https://old.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1pun9u5/devs_using_ai_coding_tools_daily_what_does_your/
>>107663133Your reference is a thread from the ClaudeAI subreddit?
>>107663133>engineering
>>107663133Whispr Flow ad is subtle
>>107663172Yeah. Not everything can be made-up.
>>107663133>or just enjoying more free time.for dilating?
>>107663133It's only dead if you're dumber than the average programmer. If you're better than 90% of programmers then theres always room for you.
>Is software engineering dead?There's so many people thinking they're something they're not and sending shitty résumés en masse, making everyone jobless including actual coders with experience like me. I need some advice, anything. Not the go sell your ass pics or go work at McD type of crap.
>>107663245at this point i think it's just a game of nepotism, straight upnetwork or die
https://old.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1puvhqn/anthropic_cofounder_warns_by_summer_2026_frontier/>This is already my reality at work. It genuinely feels like moving at light speed while everyone else is standing still.>The velocity on projects and the free time left over are unreal. People around me are taking two weeks to scope something out, write up a plan, and get stakeholders aligned. Meanwhile, I'll meet with a stakeholder in the morning and have a working prototype in their hands by the end of the day. By Friday, that business problem is solved with something actually running in production. And I've already moved on because I'm three projects deep into the next thing.>They're not actually standing still. They're doing things. It's just this other world they live in. When you're working with agents across different foundation models, it genuinely feels like you have entire teams outside your normal work colleagues. And together, you just crush it. No barriers. No resistance. No excuses. Just getting shit done.>The scope of what's accomplished in compressed time is wild. If you're truly leveraging this, everyone around you appears to be standing still. Kind of a limitless moment occasionally. I'm not saying that to be cringeworthy; it absolutely does feel like a different world.>I don't think the non-adopters have any sense of this. The train left the station, and they are still at home eating breakfast.
>>107663259Yeah I came to the same conclusion the introverts will die in this job race.Linkedin is horse shit for trying to really connect. I've been thinking about expos but ironically a contact on linkedin told me it's a bad idea.
>>107663259>>107663278Are either of you asian? Of the southern variety?
>>107663287No. What kind of stupid question is that?
>>107663295It's a reasonable assumption.
>>107663321Not if you knew anything about the field and its current state.
>>107663326That's absolutely horrifying.Anons, is this true?
>>107663133The limiting step hasnt changed for in production code bases, and that is attaining full comprehension of the system. Nuance is only attained at fully appreciation of a system. Its known from pedagogy that creating a line of code comes with full understanding, but rote memorization is quickly forgotten and underappreciated. Thus these workflows overtime leave the whole engineering team without nuance. Leading to things like not being able to change the taskbar location as its deeply behind ai generated code that passed the ticket but no one understands, is verbose, and machine readibility optimized not human.If its a web slop page these flows are goodIf your handling users money or sensitive data this workflow is a good way to poison pill a corporation slowlycand effectively
