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What exactly is left when we remove coding from software engineering? Could it be handled by a manager? Or perhaps by a single senior SWE who could now perform the work of an entire team using these rapidly advancing AI coders?



for a lot of tasks that aren't as cut & dry, i often find myself having to provide it pseudo code, which it can then one-shot to working code.

don't get me wrong, it's still a massive upgrade from the pre-sonnet era, but i still don't think it can take a high-level requirement and convert it into a working project... yet


> but i still don't think it can take a high-level requirement and convert it into a working project.

It cannot, you need to hand-hold it, as in, to make something larger than a (albeit good looking) to do app, you don't need to write code , but you do need to be able to review and debug code and take the architectural decisions. It'll simply loop forever otherwise.




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