AI for Software Engineering is Just Another “Paradigm Shift”

The Software Engineering Identity Crisis - Annie Vella

Many of us became software engineers because we found our identity in building things. Not managing things. Not overseeing things. Building things. With our own hands, our own minds, our own code. But that identity is being challenged. AI coding assistants aren’t just changing how we write software - they’re fundamentally transforming who we are. We’re shifting from creators to orchestrators, from builders to overseers. From engineers to somethi…

AI for Software Engineering is Just Another “Paradigm Shift”

Take a drink if you hate that term. Tim O’Reilly has written a post about the huge shift AI is making with our relationship to software engineering (read: The End of Programming as we Know It). Scary title. But the content is less so. Why? The more things change… How many of you started with technologies you still use exactly the same way today? Even if you’re a master Lisp/Clojure developer, you’ve still evolved, right? I should really get my h…