Software Engineering Is Dead. Long Live Product Engineering
The article argues that the rise of AI-driven coding tools is shifting the role of developers from software engineers to product engineers. It suggests that the focus is moving away from writing code toward managing AI agents and ensuring the quality of training data and evaluation environments.
Why it matters
This shift represents a fundamental change in the software development industry and the required skill sets for future engineers.
The cost of writing software has collapsed. Anyone can open up a ChatGPT chat and get it to code pretty much anything they want, even on the free plans.
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