I think the author would probably agree that the profession of software engineering still has important responsibilities in the age of agents. He says so himself about his new day-to-day role:
> In my professional life, I’m happy to move one level up to become a manager of AI agents. I’m literate, I’m a good technical writer, I can describe what I want and let AI agents write the code.
Regarding continuing to practice software engineering, it is a noble ideal, but do you have an answer to the erosion of community described in the article? For instance, do you have suggestions for the author for how they might still feel motivated to invent a new programming language?
I think there are things we can do to preserve our intellectual practice, like intentionally forming communities that only do traditional coding (much like how human-only art communities still exist), but it's useful to suggest these concretely if you have any in mind.
> In my professional life, I’m happy to move one level up to become a manager of AI agents. I’m literate, I’m a good technical writer, I can describe what I want and let AI agents write the code.
Regarding continuing to practice software engineering, it is a noble ideal, but do you have an answer to the erosion of community described in the article? For instance, do you have suggestions for the author for how they might still feel motivated to invent a new programming language?
I think there are things we can do to preserve our intellectual practice, like intentionally forming communities that only do traditional coding (much like how human-only art communities still exist), but it's useful to suggest these concretely if you have any in mind.