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Re:Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career by kakacik on Monday May 11, 2026 @03:07PM (#48099289)
I am not, yet actual coding is miniscule part of workflow. The rest is cca un-automable by any llm - politics, meetings, discussions, brainstorming, organizing testing teams, stakeholders and so on.

This is how big corporations look like, not some SV startups.

Re:Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career by munksbeer on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @03:16PM (#48113060)
I agree. And that stuff is soul destroying. I have done it, and right now I work in a place a little smaller, but we get so much done without all the cruft. And we get it done better. I spend much more time writing code now (*) than at the big corps, and we do a much better job because we can iterate.

(*) Well, now claude spends a lot of time writing code, I spend a lot of time designing and steering it. Claude can write remarkably sophisticated code with the correct steering.*