News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career. Parent comment

Re:Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career by bborud on Monday May 11, 2026 @01:02PM (#48097602)
We never noticed how easy the code writing part had already become because it happened slowly. Through mechanical means, through the ability to re-use code, and through code generation.

Heck, even long before LLMs about 10% to 30% of my code was already automatically generated. By tooling, by IDLs and by my editor just being able to infer what my most likely input would be.

> We have robots walking just fine now, by the way.

I don't think you got the point I was trying to make.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career by SoftTalker on Monday May 11, 2026 @01:13PM (#48097743)
True, but I guess I see a distinction between scaffolded/templated boilerplate or autocomplete and actual application logic. People have generated boilerplate from templates for ages, as you say. RoR maybe a pretty good example, but there wasn't even early-days AI involved in doing that.
[ Parent | on HN ]