SMRTR ProgrammingMar 3, 2026Dev.to

Is Software Engineering Cooked? Not Yet. But Maybe.

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AI coding tools are rapidly changing software development, leading some to claim the field is solved. While AI excels at code generation due to pattern-based nature and verifiable outputs, production-ready software requires judgment across security, scalability, and architecture. Developers are shifting from writing implementations to defining correctness and building validation systems around AI-generated code.

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