Comment by JKCalhoun

Comment by JKCalhoun a day 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 a day 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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dmoy 21 hours ago

Yea I think Calhoun also read the article before posting, and agrees with you; they meant the full title should be
> "The Death of Software Engineering as a Profession" ... is greatly exaggerated.
As in "is greatly exaggerated" is part of the title
They did not mean the title should be
> The Death of Software Engineering as a Profession
and that they think the thesis is greatly exaggerated.

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- alwa 17 hours ago
  
  For today’s lucky 10,000– @JKCalhoun is most likely making reference here to American humorist Mark Twain, who, in response to news stories claiming he had died, was reported to have quipped “reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.”
  [0] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2024/06/07/report-death/
  
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jama211 20 hours ago

Software engineering isn’t dead and won’t be dead from LLMs, I have no fear of that, but coding by hand may become as usually unnecessary as coding in assembly is now.
And I think that’s ok.

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- dingnuts 20 hours ago
  
  Besides what Sam Altman wants everyone to believe, there isn't a lot of evidence what you're saying is true. My experience with LLMs hasn't borne it out, and I also don't think it's okay -- I LIKE writing software!
  
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