Engineering leader/founder; catalyzes discussions on EM/CTO archetypes, architecture depth, and org tradeoffs.
Is coding dead? Here is how we know. Ask a person who never heard what coding is to create an app for you using AI, then you do the same WITH your engineering background. Compare the results afterwards. What will be different?
AI saved the non-technical engineering leader. For years, losing hands-on skills felt like decline. Now? Architecture experience plus AI equals leverage. Typing speed doesn’t win anymore. Judgment does. And the people with 20 years of it just became dangerous again.
They were right about software engineering being dead. Just not in the way people think. Software isn’t code. It’s architecture, tradeoffs, and understanding the customer well enough to know what not to build, and connecting technical decisions to real business outcomes. That isn't dead...