The Role of a Software Engineer
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A senior engineer reflects on how AI agents have fundamentally changed their role — from writing code to directing it. The shift resembles technical product management: setting priorities, guiding architecture, and delegating implementation to agents instead of humans. The biggest open question is how new developers will build foundational debugging skills if they never write code themselves.
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