[jaredsohn]

Good software engineers are concerned with product strategy. They might not be able to decide things but they can help inform product about options because they're closer to actually building things.

If you just implement product tickets you'll probably get replaced by LLMs.

[jeanlou]

You need to be a product-minded engineer.

[hyperadvanced]

It’s crazy how fast the tables turned on SWE being barely required to do anything to SWE being required to do everything. I quite like the 2026 culture of SWE but it’s so much more demanding and competitive than it was 5 or 10 years ago