Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Are LLMs making software engineers obsolete, or are they just replacing the rote mechanics of writing code? As Citadel CTO Andrew Janian noted, LLMs are to software engineering what the printing press was to literature. Monastic scribes copied pre-existing ideas, but authors authored works. Similarly, coders translate specifications into syntax, while true software engineers architect paradigms, envision products, and solve non-deterministic problems. In the age of automated code generation, the value shifts entirely to trace observability, evaluation, and system design.
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Are LLMs making software engineers obsolete, or are they just replacing the rote mechanics of writing code? As Citadel CTO Andrew Janian noted, LLMs are to software engineering what the printing press was to literature. Monastic scribes copied pre-existing ideas, but authors authored works. Similarly, coders translate specifications into syntax, while true software engineers architect paradigms, envision products, and solve non-deterministic problems. In the age of automated code generation, the value shifts entirely to trace observability, evaluation, and system design.
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