Ask HN: What is the current trajectory of a senior engineer?
A Hacker News contributor questions the long-term viability of software engineering roles as AI agents become increasingly capable of handling complex architecture. The author suggests that human roles may shift toward product management and interpersonal leadership as technical coding tasks become automated.
Why it matters
This reflects a growing industry debate regarding the displacement of technical labor by generative AI and the potential evolution of the software development lifecycle.
Been recently thinking about this more and more: When the need for a human in the design loop ceases? Given that LLMs are RL'd to the max with everything that can be given a wrong/right answer (code/maths), what currently is stopping Anthropic, OpenAI et al. from internally building (and maybe buying) datasets of good and bad architecture, and RL'ing that?
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