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exitb · 14 days ago

Isn't this a bit revisionist? I started to become interested in programming around late 90s and I don't remember anyone floating the idea that OOP, libraries or IDEs will make programming obsolete as a profession. If anything, pre-2023 most programmers considered their job as one of the hardest ones to automate.

absqueued · 14 days ago

I find the idea that IntelliJ being a job killer hard to believe, just like when some of my colleagues used to think Dreamweaver would wipe out frontend development - or 'HTML slicing', as we called it back then.

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hshsiejensjsj · 14 days ago

The title is “The Death of Software Engineering as a Profession", why was this changed? Not really fair to the author.

absqueued · 14 days ago

I actually posted with that title. Not sure what happend.

@dang could perhaps help?

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absqueued · 14 days ago

I posted this link after reading all the way. Jason actually makes a good point - its just that this title is loud. Blog post itself isn't claiming the death of software engineering at all. If anything, it just shows that every five or ten years someone claims software engineering is dead.

Its not dead at all and it wont die either.

Why? chagpt, or figma or v0 can spin up a few pages of brochure site, even some blog posting level web apps, basic cruds you know. But I don't think it will replace full software engineering.

I work with a large codebase, thats almost 30 years old, multiple framework ( backbone, react, angular) and then java, python for backends. All from different phases and everything is stitched together to make it work, and have a well profit making business going on. There is no model or chatxyz that can dig throug all these connected apps and services and replace our engineering team. It helps us here and there- yeah a lot.

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JKCalhoun · 14 days ago

"The Death of Software Engineering as a Profession" ... is greatly exaggerated.

Could be the title of the piece.

I agree: throughout my own career as a programmer (I prefer the more blue-collar sounding term—it better fits my skill set) I have also seen large changes in the industry that certainly made waves, did not capsize the profession.

At the same time, the profession I retired from was by no means the profession I entered into in the '90s. I confess I liked the older profession better.

absqueued · 14 days ago

Its just the title, I have read the post texts before posting, he actually says its here to say dispite mainstream claiming coding is dead every other five year.

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absqueued · 20 days ago

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