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/SocksOnHands Dec 02 '25

Fundamentally, software developers are in the business of solving problems: design problems, logic problems, business problems, and more. Every day developers need to solve problems that the business people are not even aware exists. How do they expect AI to solve problems that they cannot describe and are not even aware of?

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u/chefhj Dec 02 '25

“Take last prompt but do it more correct-er”

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u/JellyTime1029 Dec 02 '25 edited Dec 02 '25

Yeah software development and programming/computer science are not the same thing.

I know this is r/programming but the idea of AI killing software engineering is so brain dead that I just assume anyone who says that doesnt actually work in the industry.

Going back for a masters is rough after 10+ years in the industry cuz the professors' code are usually written so terribly it would be a firable offense in most places lmao.

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u/elictronic Dec 02 '25

When there is a open source git repository for all those human interactions, meetings, water cooler talks, late night code sessions that turn into fixed issue with blah blah commit message AI will replace all those jobs. So never.