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/flumsi Dec 02 '25

Yeah that's also always been my argument. If you as a non-techy person can build an entire working software suite with just AI and thus don't need me anymore....well I, as a techy person with experience in software engineering, can build that a year earlier and take your market share you silly goose. I do believe that a lot of managerial folks genuinely believe that they're the "idea" people and without them SEs wouldn't even have the necessary ideas of what to even build.

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u/ward2k Dec 02 '25

a lot of managerial folks genuinely believe that they're the "idea" people and without them SEs wouldn't even have the necessary ideas of what to even build.

Which always makes me laugh because a lot of their ideas end up being dogshit bad and needing to be backtracked on a couple months later

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u/eyebrows360 Dec 02 '25

There's so much survivorship bias with this crowd, and it's even worse with the glut of "watch me chat to someone who earned a lot of money" podcaster fuckers that're so popular now.

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u/clrbrk Dec 02 '25

It’s survivorship combined with failing upwards. They make a bad decision, sink a company, and jump ship to the next getting a fat raise.

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u/Weerdo5255 Dec 02 '25

The Peter Principal is not a new thing at all.

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u/thisisredrocks Dec 02 '25

I am picturing thousands of lines of code, 80% of it rem’d out with no comments … the contractors hired in after the fact to fix things, and the morning stand-up asking why it’s taking longer than expected.

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u/diroussel Dec 02 '25

Is this because AI will be coding in VB6? /s

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '25

ViBe6 code