There is a growing belief that AI will dramatically reduce the need for experienced software engineers. It won’t.
The demonstrations are compelling. We see AI connected to Figma for design context, Jira for tickets, source control for repository history, and CI/CD pipelines for deployment. A feature request goes in, code comes out, and a pull request appears. The workflow looks increasingly automated.
On the surface, this automation appears to be the natural evolution of software development. In practice, however, it is far more constrained.
