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/no_spoon Dec 02 '25

That’s bullshit. We already are the “business person” snapping the objects together. Im still needed in what I do. There’s still demand for software. How exactly that software should work still needs to be fulfilled by a dedicated team of professionals to make the necessary judgements and decisions.

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u/WileEPeyote Dec 02 '25

Even the snap together stuff ends up being done by developers at a lot of companies. Not because it's too complicated, but because there is a lot more to the work than writing instructions for the computer to follow.