A eulogy for the software engineer
davekiss.com 3 weeks ago 25 ● 2 sources
A first-person writer holds a funeral-style reflection on the software engineering profession, arguing that recent changes have made familiar work feel less relevant. The piece centers on a specific shift from tasks taking a whole workday to finishing in four minutes. It reframes modern software work as writing and validating “what done looks like” before code is generated, with less of the old human-only flow state and more of the effort shifted into upfront specification and review.