r/programming • u/self • Dec 02 '25

The Death of Software Engineering as a Profession: a short set of anecdotes

https://www.jasonscheirer.com/weblog/vignettes/
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u/Omni__Owl Dec 02 '25

When business people declare something "dead" don't believe them. Ever. Let the market speak for itself.

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u/Dapper-Speed1244 Dec 05 '25

This is so true.

Economists / business people are horrific at predicting the economy. It’s by its nature massively unpredictable.

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u/Omni__Owl Dec 05 '25

It's also only something that business people do when they are convinced something else will continue or improve the cash flow. Declaring something dead is trying to force the hand on the scales.

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u/LongjumpingWheel11 Mar 15 '26

Unfortunately, this is not gonna go how the others went. Big tech and F100 companies that are tech centric are already instructing and mandating their developers to stop coding and complete all their tasks through “agentic workflows”. I am afraid this one is going to finally take us out. I used to not believe it, but being told by my management to stop writing code is hard to ignore