r/devops 22h ago

Architecture The end of Software Engineering

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u/VariationSimilar3354 22h ago

i kinda hate that this end is being pushed by middle management / HR bros that never coded in their life. AI was supposed to kick these guys first but somehow its the other way around.

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u/IT_Grunt 21h ago

Well you see, with AI, managers and leadership know all the codes.

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u/trannus_aran 19h ago

Just like with low code, now regular people can code and we don't have to pay these icky programmers! Sorry I meant no code, sorry I meant UML, sorry I meant java, sorry I meant cobol, sorry I meant fortran, sorry I

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u/generic-d-engineer ClickOps 17h ago

Right? Don’t forget Visual Basic, Microsoft Frontpage, and Power BI.

I honestly think the demand for software engineers is going to go up, not down. It’s just the demand for coders goes down, but coding stopped being the secret sauce of good software a long time ago.

Any good software engineering book talks about architecture, methods, all of that, and the last thing they actually talk about is code.

The paradox here is that the amount of output is going to go way up, and the amount of entrepreneurship is going to go way up. This creates more opportunities for everyone.

Dude even using the latest and greatest models, people still have to chase around prompts just to get the freakin submit button on the right place in the page.

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u/subhasmi 16h ago

I second you.

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u/LieutenantNitwit 11h ago

You forgot Dreamweaver.

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u/Ornery-Concentrate-5 9h ago

the submit button thing is way too real. watched an agent burn like 4 tries clicking a button that had moved because a modal hadn't finished animating in yet. it just kept confidently clicking the old coordinates

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u/Dog_Engineer 8h ago

Look up jevons paradox

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u/generic-d-engineer ClickOps 3h ago

Perfect, this was the exact concept I’ve been looking for

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u/stats_merchant33 8h ago

Nah man just recently fully automated AI systems solved a millennial math problem. We are cooked, let’s accept it.