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The New Shape of Software Engineering - Hi, I'm David G. Cohen

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Someone asked me recently how many engineers a startup will need in two years. When I said “maybe a tenth of what you’d guess,” they laughed. I wasn’t joking. Here’s what I believe is happening. In the near future, most of the features in most software systems won’t be written by software engineers. They’ll be … Continue Reading >

Someone asked me recently how many engineers a startup will need in two years. When I said “maybe a tenth of what you’d guess,” they laughed. I wasn’t joking. Here’s what I believe is happening. In the near future, most of the features in most software systems won’t be written by software engineers. They’ll be contributed by domain experts, in the form of high-fidelity prototypes built with AI. Your head of sales, who knows exactly what the pipeline review should look like, will build it. Your customer success lead, who fields the same complaint every week, will build the fix. Your ops…

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