Software engineering may be done by 2026. It's kinda like no one really thinks about a compiler. You just write the code and it spits out some binary bytecode and it just works. You write English and out comes Python.

He says something to the effect of, like, software engineering has to be no one may be done by twenty nine six.

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Right? And this is a tweet from one of the, Adam Wolf, which is a former engineering manager on Cloud Code. He says something to the effect of, like, software engineering has to be no one may be done by twenty nine six. Right? And this is you can look at them on Twitter. So this is something that, again, no one knows the future. But if you think about just the fact of writing code and this pace at which we scale from 20 April to '26, it's a real shot that the way we write code is gonna change forever and no one's gonna and I think the analogy you use is it's kinda like no one really thinks about a compiler. Right? You just write the code and it spits out some binary bytecode and it just works. So because you have that and you write English and out comes Python, which then gets translated to binary, like, maybe. Yeah. And so for the foreseeable future, how how much do you think a coding background matters? I think

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Extremely bold prediction that software engineering as we know it will be obsolete in 2 years. The compiler analogy makes it accessible and quotable. This challenges a fundamental assumption about tech careers.

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