Software engineering is in the painful position of needing to explain the value of their job to management. It sucks because now we need to pull out these anecd

Software engineering is in the painful position of needing to explain the value of their job to management. It sucks because now we need to pull out these anecdotes of solving difficult bugs, with the implication that AI can’t handle it. We have never been good at confronting the follies of management. The Leetcode interview process is idiotic but we go along with it. Ironically LC was one of the first victims of AI, but this is even more of an issue for management that things SWEs solve Leetcodes all day. Ultimately I believe this is something that will take a cycle for business to figure out by failing. When businesses will figure out that 10 good engineers + AI always beats 5 + AI, it will become table stakes rather than something that replaces people. Your competitor who didn’t just fire a ton of SWEs? Turns out they can pay for Cursor subscriptions too, and now they are moving faster than you.