Over the last year, a dramatic shift has happened in how software is being developed. From being primarily human led, with AI acting as a booster, autocompleting here and there, to being primarily AI led with engineers acting as the architect and manager of the AI developers. Does this mean software engineers is the first profession to become obsolete from AI?

Quite the opposite I would argue. It is the profession at the frontier of receiving the real productivity gains of AI. And I predict this would only increase their demand because

🛠️ more people are now enabled to write software which at some point will require expert input and support

🏢 more companies will develop in house technology to digitise process and automate workflows

🤖 more developers will be needed to realise the digitisation that AI enables

In some way the introduction of agentic ai coding tools like Cursor or Claude Code is the ChatGPT moment for Agentic AI. I expect the next years to be transformation as agentic ai is applied to more and more workflows and more and more people experience the magic 🪄