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by slopinthebag
2 hours ago
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This is not true. First of all, not all software is written in the context of a FAANG company with “feature requests”. Secondly, writing software is similar to the process of design, this comment reads like “the vast majority of handbag design is mapping problem between features and leather”, ignoring that both the design and implementation can be rewarding to work on. Eg. I’m working on a program for myself and the overall architecture of the program as well as some parts of its implementation are clever and compose well to make the codebase a joy to work in. I am not simply “mapping features to mundane technical details”. It is as much art as the skillfully hand-crafted handbag. |
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You said it: you are working on a "program for yourself". Hobbyist craft programming will always be here. The question is what kind of software engineering will be paid for, and a career can be built on.
I don't see much of a market for pure software engineers anymore. You also need to be a product manager, scientist, or have some other domain knowledge adjacent to software that relates to the real world.
I say this with empathy for those who just enjoyed the craft of designing and building software, and thought that alone would provide them a livelihood and career in perpetuity, but have found a big chunk of what they loved doing (and getting paid for) overtaken by AI coding agents.