Reflections on Software Engineering in the Age of AI
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A senior software engineer reflects on how AI has transformed coding from a deeply creative, flow-state-driven craft into a supervisory editing role. Skills atrophy, junior developers are being cut from pipelines, and institutional knowledge is quietly disappearing. Like the Navy's aircraft carrier problem, we risk forgetting how to build the hard things — and losing the people who knew how.
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