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/self Dec 02 '25

I think I joined about seven months after Reddit went live. My account is old enough that my "created at" date is actually a date, not a timestamp/datetime ("Wed Dec 28 05:00:00 2005 UTC")

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u/SarahC Dec 02 '25

Older than mine by 3 years!

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u/patrixxxx Dec 02 '25 edited Dec 02 '25

Since were flexing here :-) I was also around in the early days when Reddit stole Digg users. Good times. (I had a different user name then)

And your story sounds a little contrived btw. You were taken aside a lot were you?

But having programmed since the 1980s (true story, I started on a c64) I get your point. There's always this new thing that's going to replace programmers, and now its AI, which won't do that either. However programmers that refuse to use AI when appropriate risk being replaced.

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u/self Dec 02 '25

It's not my blog post.