# AI is removing the middle class of software engineering

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https://blog.florianherrengt.com/ai-removing-middle-class-software-engineering.html

> AI makes projects with weak engineering culture fail much faster.
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> There used to be a time when people sat down and talked about how they'd do something. Now they can just prompt an agent for a few hours and open a PR.
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> The most tragic aspect of this way of working is that, to the untrained eye, it works.
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> If you pull the branch and test it, you'll probably get something somewhat functional. So what do they do? They keep going. Again and again. Until the project reaches a point where no one knows how anything works.
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> Just like someone buying a new luxury car on a credit card. You don't see the debt. You just see the car that looks great.