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by Dansvidania 10 days ago
Software engineering, Computer Science and Coding are not the same, even though there is overlap.

AI might (I have doubts) be quite capable at coding, but it is still quite poor at software engineering.

Even assuming that it does become good at software engineering, it is still worth knowing it yourself to check the tools, know what they are doing, etc. Think of a civil engineer. They are not calculating static forces on pillars manually anymore for a while, they use computer programs for that, but they still need to understand the math behind it. I believe there will always be, at the very very least, a similar relationship between software engineering and coding agents.

Problem solving techniques are going to be applied at different levels, but they are still going to be valuable and - in my opinion - even necessary.