I am not a Software Engineer
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A 23-year veteran developer reflects on being told they're "not a software engineer" — first for caring too much about code quality, now for rejecting AI-driven development. They push back on agentic workflows, LLM-generated code, and AI KPIs, arguing that readability, reproducibility, and genuine understanding still matter, even as the industry races toward a future they want no part of.
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