AI is removing the middle class of software engineering

AI makes projects with weak engineering culture fail much faster.

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.

The most tragic aspect of this way of working is that, to the untrained eye, it works.

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.

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.