Chinese researchers published a paper with a devastating title: "The End of Software Engineering”
it argues software engineering is finished.
In traditional software, code is the carrier of pre-written human logic.
In agentic software, the AI agent is the software.
Code is no longer a permanent monument built by human hands. It is completely ephemeral, dynamically generated, executed, and discarded on the fly by an LLM-driven reasoning loop.
Think about how software delivery has evolved:
• Era 1: On-premise licensed software (you installed it locally)
• Era 2: SaaS (hosted in the cloud, managed by vendors)
• Era 3: Agent-as-a-Service (AaaS)
Each historical shift transferred complexity away from the user. But this latest shift transfers something entirely different.
It transfers decision-making complexity itself.
The paper argues that traditional engineering is hitting a hard complexity wall. Human brains can only hold so much state, manage so many dependencies, and debug so many lines at once.
LLM-based agents scale non-linearly.
They don't just write functions faster. They navigate architectural complexity by outsourcing reasoning to models that improve every single month.
Which means the role of the developer is permanently changing.
You are no longer a code author typing syntax line by line.
You are an intent architect.
Your job is no longer writing the implementation. It is specifying goals, designing multi-agent coordination loops, and auditing outcomes.
It’s coming!
No need for Netflix anymore, create the movie you want to see tonight! Generated just for your taste.
Our devices will simply need to contain an AI and we’ll have everything!
Next: video game?
Minimax H3 Max has generates video faster than you can watch it so I hooked it to a twitch livestream! Now you can watch infinite interdimensional cable - link to the stream below
🔥 Hot take: this is the end of frontend (web, app, ...)
Bots like @bot or Instinct really mark the end of frontend I think.
Why would we go to a website, deal with their UX, onboarding, navigate through 5 pages... or download an app and test 5 of them before finding the right one, when we can simply ask our bot to do what we want?
And bots can actually bring features that don't even exist in the product.
"Tell me when the price changes."
"Let me know if something needs my attention."
"Compare this with my other accounts."
"Do X when Y happens."
etc...
I think the next step is the rewiring.
If we only need to chat with our agent to get things done, why do we bother building so much UI that nobody really cares about?
Bots don't have tastes. They don't care if the UI is beautiful, if the onboarding is clever or if navigation makes sense.
They just need a way to use the service.
MCP is great for that.
Take @Questrade and their recent MCP release.
Why would I keep using their website if my bots can look at my portfolio, analyze it, cross-reference it with market data and other sources, tell me what needs my attention and eventually take actions for me?
And that's maybe the biggest difference.
A product knows about its product.
Bots potentially knows about me + all my products.
Frontend won't disappear tomorrow obviously, but I really think we're moving toward a world where the UI becomes the fallback...
and the agent becomes the frontend.
Did anyone figure out how to run the Docker daemon inside @bot ?
I’m trying to run my frontend stack (SSR) in an environment that mimics production so I can work on performance, including Lighthouse reports and performance/memory dumps.
@kushbhuwalka Got the same conclusion on our side. Everybody work in silo with their agents, should we commit the session history or make everyone prompt the same system?
I've been thinking a lot about what software infrastructure looks like in a world where agents use software more than humans do. Wrote this post as an expression of this curiosity-- hope its a fun read! https://t.co/xva9FnU31v
AI may be the end of coding but this is also the beginning of something new.
Stop focusing on the end and start focusing on the new. We have to build process, framework etc… that will live for the next decade and more
@Diablo wth? After 1 year pause I decide to play Diablo 4 on PS5, try to see what’s new before buying the extension…
Boy it’s unplayable, so much lag! 1 can play for 1 minute then my character does not move for 1 minute and boom dead!
Awesome experience!
Very promising interaction with @bot!
Still leveling up but here is what I am trying:
- SEO: Responsible of our Google Search Console
- Performance: Lighthouse for now, deeper expectation later
- QA: Automatically QA what other agents open.
It's surprisingly easy to setup, you just ask 😄 and help them setup.
All of that thanks to @grok .
First feedback is that it would be nice if we could at least disable the fast mode. I just want to be cautious of my spending 😅