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At the centre Saying that coding will be automated away first betrays a misunderstanding of software engineering, because coding is only a small part of the work. Holds KBKent Beck Read this korrent →

• Similar wording Predicting that AI would write 90% of the code was never a prediction that we would need 90% fewer software engineers. Holds DADario Amodei
• Similar wording Programmers who loved the mechanical act of coding are under threat; those who wanted to build things are not. Holds DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson
• Similar wording Software development is separated from engineering by circumstance rather than essence, and most programmers could cross that gap without retraining. Holds HWHillel Wayne
• Similar wording Programming, not diagramming, is where an engineer actually learns, because code is the point at which you can no longer fool yourself about what you understand. Holds KBKent Beck
• Similar wording The prediction that 90% of code will be AI-written by the end of 2025 deserves skepticism, though manual programming may yet become a horse: ridden for love, not transport. Holds DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson
• Similar wording You cannot really understand the code you write unless you are also the one operating it. Holds CMCharity Majors
• Similar wording Working with coding agents is exhausting rather than deskilling, and that exhaustion — not the technology — is what limits how many projects one engineer can run at once. Holds SWSimon Willison
• Similar wording Predictions that nobody will write code soon dodge the question of what code is: prompting a model is still producing something we will have to read and change. Holds MFMartin Fowler