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[Max Verstappen @VerstappenCOM]

🏆 MAX WINS IN SINGAPORE!!! Taking victory at his 250th Grand Prix, at a track where he had never won before 👏👏

#SingaporeGP

[Formula 1 @F1]

MAX VERSTAPPEN WINS THE BAHRAIN GRAND PRIX IN MALAYSIA 🏁🏆🎉

#F1 #BahrainGP

[Sky Sports F1 @SkySportsF1]

A Max Verstappen-Lewis Hamilton front row for the Bahrain GP in Malaysia! 🤩✅

[Uber Engineering @UberEng]

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[Akshay 🚀 @akshay_pachaar]

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[Ben Dicken @BenjDicken]

As a relative F1 noob, the rules around car construction were confusing.

So I built a tool to teach me.

Each part has restrictions on what teams can and cannot customize + what is and isn't proprietary, etc, etc. Hard to navigate for newcomers.

A visual guide.

[Race+ @racepluscom]

Max Verstappen at Baku 💀

[McLaren Mastercard Formula 1 Team @McLarenF1]

A very difficult day in Baku. Time to regroup as a team for the Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia.

#McLarenF1 | #AzerbaijanGP 🇦🇿

[ᴋᴀʀᴇᴇᴍ @iikareem_]

@Ahmedhossamdev 😍😍😍😍😍😍

[voxium @v0xium]

Super long post ahead:

This resonated with a lot of people. We are all facing similar kinds of experiences in our work environments. Many suggested that I take it easy, just use LLMs to finish whatever task I have, get the paycheck, and be happy. I understand that sentiment. However, there comes a point in your life when you need to find meaning in your work.

It gets boring to do the same thing again and again. Your brain needs stimulation. You will start finding it somewhere if not in your work. But what if you do not have the time? How will you find your purpose then?

Quitting is not an option. You need that money. There are bills to be paid. So then, the option is to just hide your face in the dirt and do what is asked of you. Nobody will be there to listen to you. And why would they do that? The end goal of any business is to become profitable. And how will you do that? Ship faster, see what gets more users onboarded, retain them. Repeat.

There is no concept of soul in this process. There is no one who will care about your satisfaction. Just you. Find it somewhere.

Code in your free time.

You do not have free time.

Find it.

There is no other option. You want to feel something? Build it in your free time.

I agree with a lot of people here saying we will just be meat proxies. Tbh, I do not understand the term exactly, but I think I get the sentiment.

But on the other hand, what I worry about is that a lot of engineering domains will start lacking intellectuals.

Think about it. If you are a kid now, in school or college, all you need to do is ask LLMs to finish your homework. Teachers are aware of it, and there is nothing they can do. If I were a kid, LLMs would be my greatest friend. They would be my replacement for the hatred I had for assignments.

The art of learning will eventually disappear. Who will be there to teach, and who will be there to learn?

Eventually, we will have a generation of kids who have no drive and curiosity. But I am pretty sure that if we steer this technology in the right direction, the opposite could also be possible. I just do not see that happening anytime soon.

I digressed a bit, but what I am trying to say is that software engineers used to take a lot of pride in their work. There is still a possibility for that, but an MBA can now come to you and say, "Hey, I could have shipped that too. What have you done here?"

Are we ready to face that question?

I think not.

That is ego. That will eventually go away as we adapt. Some of us are already adapting. There is resistance, and there always will be. I think it is a natural progression during any technical revolution. Yes, it is a big leap in technology. We cannot deny it any longer.

What I am interested to know is how this will translate to other domains.

Software can be automated. Let us assume that.

What happens to math, physics, biology, medicine, mechanical engineering, aeronautics, and so on? Will they face a similar fate?

I do not have an answer to that.

Okay, now coming back to the topic. What do you think will happen to devs?

Since most of us, judging from the response to this post, are using LLMs to do whatever management asks, what will happen to us?

If models become super good, which I think they eventually will with the pace at which we are moving forward, will all of us eventually go out of a job?

I again do not have an answer to this.

Can someone focused solely on engineering survive?

Can someone focused solely on design survive?

What about someone focused just on PM?

Can an individual do the job of all three?

Maybe eventually they will have to.

So how do I see the future of software engineering now?

I think I need to reference the replies I have received on this post.

It is bleak.

At least the future of what we think of as traditional software engineering is bleak.

I am not even sure whether whatever comes next can be considered software engineering or not.

On a side note, I never even liked labeling building software as engineering. When I was a kid, I always associated engineering with making things like bridges, cars, rockets, etc.

So how will you find the hard problems to solve when you are not getting any time in your day apart from talking to Claude?

I do not know where we will find that.

Maybe I need to pick up a new domain.

Hardware?

Very interesting, but I am too dumb to learn about it now. And most probably, it is not going to pay my bills.

So not that.

And there is nothing else that comes to my mind apart from these two.

I think I am doomed.

I know I am just rambling in this post. Not a lot of it will make sense, but I need to just get it out.

Now, regarding this post, this is a once-in-a-lifetime reach I got on this one. I do not think this will happen again for a long time. Almost everyone on the tech side of X saw this and shared their opinions.

I am grateful for this.

This single post almost tripled my followers overnight. I am thankful to all of you for sharing your thoughts on this matter.

I would like you all to post more on X. Share your thoughts. It can be about anything.

Maybe this will give your brain the stimulation that coding at work is not going to.

Start today.

Post anything.

Try to be original.

I could just keep on writing. I like writing. I like writing long posts, even if nobody is going to read them.

Maybe that is what I like the most about X. Just sharing my thoughts and seeing what others say about them.

Interesting era that we all live in. I could say anything, and hundreds of people are going to see it.

Okay, what else?

Let us talk about life now.

I think, as I mentioned, the soul-sucking nature of AI is something that bothers me.

I would have loved AI to solve cancer.

It took my grandparents from me, and if it solves that, I do not think anybody would be as happy as me.

I need it to create more medicine, help humans live longer, and improve our quality of life.

Software automation is fine, but most of our world can live without our CRUD apps.

What it cannot live without is new medicine and cures for new diseases.

I hope AI gets so advanced that any disease can be cured using personalized medicine.

Not sure if I am making sense.

Anyways, this technology has had the most impact on my life. And this will continue to happen.

I hope that we humans are a part of this industry shift. I do not want to be sidelined. I want to cherish new technology.

Do you know how it would have felt to live during the space race?

I want to feel something similar.

The difference is that the space race was not threatening anyone's livelihood.

On the other hand, this time, all we hear from the AI industry is that they are going to make us jobless.

I hate that about them.

So negative.

It does not have to be like that.

I am tired of typing this now. I will share my thoughts sometime later.

Yes, I do have many thoughts.

That is all I do.

I think about anything.

At least no one is automating my consciousness yet.

[ᴋᴀʀᴇᴇᴍ @iikareem_]

So sad wallahi.
The joy of software engineering and building things is fading day by day.😔

[voxium @v0xium]

I am done with this shit. It is over. The state of engineering right now is horrible. It has been half a month since I started a new role at a big company. Nobody knows anything here. The specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, resolution of those tickets, reports, etc., everything is made by Claude Code. Nobody on my team likes this. They are being forced to ship as much as they can. I have heard multiple times from higher management that pushing code is not a bottleneck, so why are we slow? People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter. Nobody is reading anything. Humans in corporate are doing nothing on their own. Everyone, literally everyone, from an L1 to an L7 engineer here is doing the same thing. Talk to Claude. There is no sense of victory. Nobody is resolving bugs. In reality, nobody is thinking anymore. Everything is done by LLMs. It is so soul-sucking. I would not mind it, to be honest, if we were at least given the time to check out the code and see what is going where. But no, the goal is to just ship. No matter what happens.

[Antonio Sarosi @antoniosarosi]

Just watched this "I'm done with AI" video by Brett Codes.

It seems some are having a hard time dealing with the realization that we are no longer "software" engineers but "product" engineers, and our job is fundamentally different.

It's a trend I've noticed in the past 2 years where entrepreneurial folks with technical backgrounds loved AI from the very first moment, whereas tech nerds who know 10 different programming languages in depth despise AI and hate using it.

When the entrepreneurial bros talk about what they're building they don't talk about tech stacks, languages or frameworks, they talk about features and how the features monetize and why users love them and how they'll lead to more users which monetize more and will keep the money printing machine running.

That's why to them AI is a bless because it removes the whole boring tech part which is only a means to an end.

But for us computer nerds it was the other way around, we'd look for a company that needs code written and we would get to write the code, that was our end, writing the code. Because we liked it, it was entertaining, we felt smart reading many times in a row that optimized function we wrote...

But really we never cared about the features or the users, we only made sure correctness is in place and the software isn't broken. We cared about writing the code, seeing it in the editor with our preferred theme and syntax highlighting, seeing the variables names we liked, the struct names we liked, the interfaces which created the perfect abstractions... it was all about the code.

If you take the code away from someone like that and leave only the product level work, i.e think about what features to implement, put yourself in the shoes of the user, QA test the result of the AI generated code and iterate on the _feature_ not the code... then it is pretty obvious they'll feel purposeless and depressed.

I was on that side, I've always looked at code as if it was something special, but somehow I've adapted to purely leading agents through features. I can't say I'm loving or enjoying this AI software engineering world, I had much more fun writing the code in the years before it.

But I don't hate it either, it doesn't make me depressed or purposeless, mainly because I know I'm the only one who can produce the right sequence of words in a prompt to get agents to do what we do at our company. You might think everyone can, but that is not true.

Remember that anecdote, a machine breaks and the mechanic comes to fix it, he looks at it and replaces one screw. Then he bills $10,000. When asked why replacing a single screw is so expensive, he breaks down the bill:

$1 for replacing the screw

$9,999 for knowing which screw to replace.

That is your position in software, with the only difference that you no longer replace the screw manually, you tell Claude to do it. But that doesn't change the fact that no one else knows which screw to replace.

Yes, someone might build a working product with no-code AI tools, just like anyone can fix a pipe by watching a tutorial, but there's only so much you can do before you actually have to call a plumber. At some point shit gets serious. And if you're actually a good software engineer, you're likely already working on serious shit.

The software engineering we knew is gone, and the new one is very different, but I suspect it will highly reward those who can adapt. People who could bridge the gap between the deep nerdy tech world and the non-technical user facing world were always very valuable, and I think AI will increase that even further.

The faster you can detach yourself from the code, the better things will go for you.

The "no AI coding" will essentially be a very small artisanal niche. How many companies do you know that use C to build optimized native desktop apps? Pretty much none because it is way faster and cheaper to use Electron and ship React to all platforms and devices.

That^ will happen with AI vs "no AI".

[ᅠ ᅠ @greenvibe]

under this living roof, the world feels softer and brighter at the same time.

[22:22 @22hrr22min]

saturn

[usfngm @usfngm]

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