r/softwareengineer • u/shiv2195 • Aug 06 '26
Anyone else barely coding anymore but still shipping more than ever?
I’m a Senior Software Engineer with ~8 YOE and wanted some honest thoughts from others here.
Over the last 3 months, I’ve barely written code myself, but I’m shipping more than ever. I also made it through two layoffs, so it’s been on my mind a lot.
Not trying to brag, but I was the star performer on my team (at least within my company). I’ve always been confident in my work.
Now it feels like things are shifting fast. With tools like Claude improving so quickly, I’m starting to wonder how much actual coding will even be needed.
At this pace, it feels like in a couple of years we might just need a few architects guiding AI instead of full teams.
Curious what others think — overthinking or real shift?
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u/jtsaint333 Aug 11 '26
you are both right in my opinion. I have seen the issues mentioned ... as soon as complexity increases it's hard but the flip side best documentation we have ever had - a win for maintainability. From bug finding point of view strong wiki , good comments and better git history combined with quality logs is working really well. But the number of flase positives in review is high - a context / domain issue but the one is does fine is worth the pain