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Writing Code Was Never the Job — Delivering Outcomes Was​

For decades, the role of the Software Engineer has evolved alongside tooling, platforms, and abstractions. From low-level systems programming to high-level frameworks, from waterfall to agile, from on-prem to cloud, each shift changed how software is built, but not who ultimately builds it.

The rise of AI-assisted development and more recently, agentic software engineering represents a fundamentally different kind of shift. Software engineers are no longer the sole producers of code. They are increasingly becoming designers of systems that produce code, operators of autonomous collaborators, and stewards of quality, security, and intent.