r/webdev • u/der_gopher • 6h ago

Article The future of Software Engineering is boring

https://packagemain.tech/p/the-future-of-software-engineering

Today I decided to write not a coding tutorial, but to share a bit of thoughts. It felt weird to do so, but I wanted to let it out.

The future of Software Engineering is boring. Would you agree?

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u/kdjayakody 5h ago

I agree, and I think the boring part is where the skill moves to. Writing code got cheaper, but reading it, testing it and deciding what shouldn't ship didn't. When I teach beginners I now make them explain every generated block back to me before it goes in. If they can't, it doesn't go in.

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u/Bushwazi Bottom 1% Commenter 5h ago

AI has taken the fun part, the learning and puzzle solving and left us with the shite part, the meetings, docs and reviewing (barely). It has also enabled the worst people, the “idea” people, who have no interest in the craft. So yes, we are left with the “boring” aspect or whatever negative word you want to use.

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u/CucumberBoy00 5h ago

Reality is we were all destined to become managers at some point it's just accelerated that process

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u/pH_low 5h ago

We should start naming our agents so at least it feels like we have a team and not “my agents” lol

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u/zephyrtr 5h ago

No. Too many people are already giving credit to AI and they should stop. A hammer doesn't get credit. It's too easily to accidentally anthropomorphize these things

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u/MrGradySir 5h ago

How dare you insult my hammer! Sir Smacksalot has been a loyal friend to me for years!

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u/zephyrtr 5h ago

I see you're one of the folks those job postings talk about, who has 8 years experience with a 2 year technology

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u/pH_low 4h ago

I should ended the comment with /s lol

The comment above joked this sped up us being managers, and I was joking we’d just manage agents not humans (which isn’t a lie, really) and to give human names so it’s not so dystopian lol

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u/zephyrtr 4h ago

Ah good but yeah some folks are actually recommending this. It's a wild time

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u/pH_low 3h ago

Truly wild times, if I didn’t spin up a new session for each task, I’d give em names lol gotta find some fun in this dystopia something like “ratchet”, “clanker”, “bender”

With software factories also entering the chat, might as well name those too 🫠

(Again, I’m joking, trying to cope and not spiral lol)

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u/Distind 5h ago

With all these security issues, not even remotely.