A software engineer with 20 years experience shares their transition from a traditional coding role to one where they orchestrate AI assistants to do the actual implementation work. They describe the shift as akin to management—reading/understanding code and making strategic decisions while delegating execution to AI tools—and frame it as the realistic future of the profession.
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2026 has been the most pivotal year in my career… and it's only March
A 20-year veteran engineer describes their career inflection point: pivoting from hands-on coding to orchestrating AI assistants as an execution layer, signaling a structural shift in what software engineers actually do.
Monday, March 30, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: LobstersBY sys://pipeline
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