The Next Two Years of Software Engineering

Re:The Next Two Years of Software Engineering by kylecazar on Sunday January 11, 2026 @08:47PM (#46582841)

Half strawman -- a mudman, perhaps. Because we're seeing proper experts with credentials jump on the 'shit, AI can do all of this for me' realization blog post train.

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Re:The Next Two Years of Software Engineering by eaurouge on Sunday January 11, 2026 @08:52PM (#46582887)

So another strawman?

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Re:The Next Two Years of Software Engineering by Chris2048 on Monday January 12, 2026 @05:24AM (#46586492)

Which experts?

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Re:The Next Two Years of Software Engineering by kylecazar on Monday January 12, 2026 @08:05AM (#46587903)

Well, I have a lot of respect for antirez (Redis), and at the time of my writing this comment he had a front page blog post in which we find:

"Writing code is no longer needed for the most part."

It was a great post and I don't disagree with him. But it's an example of why it isn't necessarily a strawman anymore, because it is being claimed/realized by more than just vibecoders and hobbyists.

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Re:The Next Two Years of Software Engineering by nl on Monday January 12, 2026 @05:46AM (#46586682)

Does Linus Torvalds count?

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Re:The Next Two Years of Software Engineering by ruszki on Monday January 12, 2026 @06:33AM (#46587045)

When has he stated that he uses AI like that? The last I heard about him a month ago, he specifically stated that he was not interested in AI to write code: https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-ai-tool-maintai...

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Re:The Next Two Years of Software Engineering by Philpax on Monday January 12, 2026 @06:48AM (#46587157)

3 days ago: https://github.com/torvalds/AudioNoise/blob/main/README.md

> Also note that the python visualizer tool has been basically written by vibe-coding. I know more about analog filters -- and that's not saying much -- than I do about python. It started out as my typical "google and do the monkey-see-monkey-do" kind of programming, but then I cut out the middle-man -- me -- and just used Google Antigravity to do the audio sample visualizer.

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Re:The Next Two Years of Software Engineering by darkwater on Monday January 12, 2026 @07:01AM (#46587267)

For me there are two things notesworthy in that repo:

* the README was clearly not written by an LLM nor aided

* he still uses GPLv2 (not 3) as the license for his works

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Re:The Next Two Years of Software Engineering by quest88 on Monday January 12, 2026 @10:20AM (#46589650)

the author of this post and Steve yegge come to mind

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