Software engineers can no longer neglect their soft skills
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As AI coding agents become extremely capable in 2026, communication has emerged as the most critical skill for software engineers. With tools like Claude Code handling most programming tasks effectively, engineers must now excel at gathering requirements, asking revealing questions, facilitating trade-offs, and managing scope discussions to provide AI agents with better specifications.
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