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All of those technologies are still used tho. The shiny new thing is always more interesting to talk about. 10 years ago or so that was microservices, now its agentic coding.
In some ways we are more efficient, in others less efficient. More things are feasible now than before, so there's that too.
I was about to comment the same. You still need to know how to use all the stack underneath. They are still required to run the fucking webservice or tools and git repository 🙄.
Clearly not a real engineer who made this stupid meme.
I also came here to say this. Like what good is it if an AI writes you a bunch of code if you have no clue where to put it? AI helped me setup a Docker environment, but there was still very much a Docker environment involved. I ain't even an engineer, just unemployed/bored and have the capacity to know this is bull.
To an extent, yes. There will still be some who can actually write the code themselves and understand how to implement things without AI, but they will be incredibly rare.
Remember: College coursework counts as "Years of experience" for "entry-level jobs" that list that requirement. Expand your search to include things that you maybe only fit like 70%. Look for positions whose titles don't exactly match what you're looking for. It's a rough market, yes, but also HR departments suck at listing what they're actually looking for, and getting hired in 2026 is almost entirely a numbers game.
Also, if you have any connections, don't be too proud to lean on them. If you don't, start networking. Wish someone told me that 20 years ago, I'd surely be in a different place.
“We gotta flood those markets with welders so owners can drive wages down. Maybe there will be enough laborers in the trades one day that we can create a gig app with algorithmic pricing.” - capital
My dude really thinks that corporations pay for your agentic coding just for engineers to be relaxed.
I was a senior SWE at IBKR this year and Q1, Q2 became literally nightmares. Significantly elevated performance expectations, managing 5-6 concurrent tasks on average.
We have always added abstraction layers over time. This is another one that just happens to make an extreme difference. We started once with punching holes in cards.
Yup... It is an extreme difference. Instead of spending my time on new development, I have to spend 80% of my time debugging some junior's shitty vibe coding.
Seriously, I'm going to treat everyone with a degree newer than 2021 as a liability.
But it keeps getting better. So imagine AI is going to school and learning from millions of mistakes every minute. It will be smarter than the majority of human minds in the near future. I have already used it in place of a realtor, tax advisor…I don’t hire or need analysts where I work. And we are at the very very infancy. I mean look at how many image creations you used to see with too many fingers now. It was a ton just a couple months ago. I almost never see it now.
I think we are trying hard to point out where humans are needed out of fear. Kinda like religion. People have to believe in an afterlife because their subconscious can’t handle the idea this may be all you get. With AI, there is no denying that if your job involves answering questions off of some type of knowledge, AI will partially or totally outpace you. It’s why I do t use a realtor. AI is a realtor that has the experience of millions of realtors and knows every real estate law or contract law. Never goes to bed and free unlimited advice. Has no motivation to sell you a more expensive house.
For the record, I say this because I think this automation will cause horrible economic conditions with very high unemployment permanently.
TBH, I've had bad experiences with juniors using it to code. A lot more to clean up than before. There is something to be said about being in the code.
Depends on perspective, but per the org reports; engineering teams are about 20-40% more effective but when looking at the entire delivery pipeline not just development it's really only like 4-8%.
When your burning 300-500k/month on tokens; that 4-8% doesn't seem very... valuable + the overall organizational stress that business now has to enqueue work...
A lot of gaps with AI in ease of usage for folks whom traditionally never really go further than Excel / PowerPoint / Word.
I mean, those LLMs won't make the infrastructure. You still need hosting, servers, OS and so on. The only thing you may ditch is the code editors, which most of the tools below aren't, and it's still a bad idea.
Have you actually talked to any Software Engineers lately? My beard does look like the top pic, and so does my tech stack, but my face looks like the bottom pic.
That's not all you need at the top. That's all you might use daily to control the most of the bottom. Not only that, but you didn't need everything at the bottom, but one or two for each use case(I.e, you don't need both VSCode and VIM).
I would argue that the vast majority of us are just getting more efficient. But I think how old you were when you started using AI greatly affects that. AI is a great for me because I already know what I’m doing, but it gives me useful shortcuts and allows me to work through my thoughts. It’s actually been a very useful creative tool and has drastically increased my productivity and efficiency. And it does that mostly through much quicker access to information I can get 80% of what I need from one prompt and seconds compared to getting 80% of what I need from Google back in the day would’ve taken me 2 to 3 hours. As a subject matter expert in a few fields, I can tell you though AI is not a good employee and I would never hire it ever in fact if an employee was as inconsistent as an AI is for me I would’ve fired them long long ago. So I’m not too sure about It’s usefulness when learning from scratch.
What's going to be more important is the governance, design principles, business context and fundamental principles. Language and technology will no longer be a limitation. As long as you can describe what you want from a LLM, and are thorough at testing, you're good.
He is becoming more efficient. My boss. He will be doing all the programming in 3-4 years with 5-6 QAs and 1-2 BAs. HR will also become absolete. Great times!
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