"just write code" roles largely disappear, and long-term value comes from delivering business outcomes, not lines of code.
08.03.2026 08:48
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"just write code" roles largely disappear, and long-term value comes from delivering business outcomes, not lines of code.
individual functions, with hand-written code increasingly restricted in high‑risk domains.
- Engineering teams shrink into minimum viable engineering teams, where fewer, more senior, systems‑thinking engineers focus on organization, communication, and strategy; entry-level ...
- As AI surpasses humans at both writing and reviewing code, humans move into a "task verifier / systems designer" role: defining work, validating outcomes via artifacts (tests, screenshots, videos), managing models, costs, security, and debugging workflows instead of ...
humanwhocodes.com/blog/2026/01...
- AI is rapidly shifting software engineers from coders to orchestrators of autonomous agents, with IDEs and workflows reorganized around managing multiple coding agents rather than editing code directly, likely becoming mainstream by ~2028.
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- Every "serious" swarm quietly reintroduces hierarchy and deterministic shells — planners, judges, schemas, type systems, tests, and deterministic reducers impose coherence; the LLM swarm is just a noisy candidate generator, not the source of architecture.
- Architecture needs global invariants; swarms are structurally local and forgetful — no shared decision register, no persistent memory of constraints, no authority to reject incompatible work, so duplication and contradictions are the statistical default.
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- Swarms can ship big, working systems that are structurally junk drawers — duplicate libs, inconsistent patterns, no coherent architectural choices, just whatever happened to compile and pass tests.
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Any senior engineer will tell you that less code is better than more, but until now that was hard to prove. With AI being paid by the token and context windows being a limiter, compaction is now a quantifiable strategy. aicoding.leaflet.pub/3may5niwoyk2n
Common pitfalls when building generative AI applications huyenchip.com//2025/01/16/...
I’m not even going into salary. More about reasonable expectations of another human being. I feel like we collectively forgot that one and two generations ago the bar was lower in terms of expectations.
On why the SRE role will become more important with AI coding swizec.com/blog/the-fut...
Super interesting thoughts about gorillas, super intelligence and where to go from here. yudhanjaya.com/essay/2024-0...
I love this framing. Treat organizational design (and debt) with systems thinking in mind.
Having some slack in the system is important to keep it healthy.
An excellent interview with the founder of Oxide, a company that's building a data center from a blank sheet. Super interesting not just for software engineers but also electrical engineers and people in distributed systems. #pragamaticengineer #oxide pca.st/episode/427a...
Want to understand the basics behind how to build a GenAI platform? This is the best blog post I've seen. huyenchip.com/2024/07/25/g...
Now it seems employers want both generalists that also have at least one specialization, I’m afraid.
I just got to this article. Thank you for writing, I think it’s on 🎯.
Hundreds of people inside. A line outside before the talk starts. #fosdem databases track is 🔥
I’m at #fosdem today and boy it’s overwhelming. The interest in open source is definitely alive and kicking.
Also, it’s refreshing coming to a conference where people do t want to sell you stuff, just ideas and projects and collaboration.
For quick French I like this one pca.st/podcast/7257...
For longer form (choose your level and) go for this one pca.st/podcast/1c27... usually interesting topics
Of course!
MacBook with stickers
The Claude Code stickers arrived 😁 @anthropic.com #fanboy
It sucks when the thing measuring your run runs out of battery, didn’t it. 🙈
I’m curious @simonwillison.net. Given the security features of cowork, what would make you stay with code or move to cowork?
Pocket casts
Pro tip: Being short in time (and not being paid by an employer to write about AI), I found that sponsoring Simon Willison (that you mention above) gives me a strong monthly summary of AI.
Just bought myself a late Christmas gift, thanks to @pragprog.com’s end of year discount. Next to read:
- Become and Effective Engineering Manager by James Stanier
- Practical Ways to Manage Yourself and Manage your Job Search by @jrothman.com 🎅😁
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