{"id":96,"date":"2026-02-04T17:03:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T17:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/watchkeeperholdings.com\/insight\/?p=96"},"modified":"2026-02-04T17:03:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T17:03:25","slug":"death-of-a-software-engineer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchkeeperholdings.com\/insight\/death-of-a-software-engineer\/","title":{"rendered":"Death of a Software Engineer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As a long-time developer, the productivity jump is undeniable\u2014MVPs that used to take weeks now take hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But something feels off. The role of the traditional software developer is clearly shifting, and not everyone wants to admit it yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I won&#8217;t pretend to have the answers. I do have reading material that\u2019s actually thoughtful:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/law.gmnz.xyz\/vibe-coding-is-mad-depressing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Vibe Coding Is Mad Depressing<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chrisgregori.dev\/opinion\/code-is-cheap-now-software-isnt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Code Is Cheap Now, Software Isn\u2019t<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/addyosmani.com\/blog\/next-two-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">What the Next Two Years of AI Development Look Like<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/codemanship.wordpress.com\/2025\/11\/25\/the-future-of-software-development-is-software-developers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Future of Software Development Is Software Developers<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kuber.studio\/blog\/Reflections\/Prompting-People\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Prompting People<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/taranis.ie\/llms-are-a-failure-a-new-ai-winter-is-coming\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LLMs Are a Failure: A New AI Winter Is Coming<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/martinalderson.com\/posts\/ai-agents-are-starting-to-eat-saas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AI Agents Are Starting to Eat SaaS<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jernesto.com\/articles\/thinking_hard\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.jernesto.com\/articles\/thinking_hard\">I Miss Thinking Hard<\/a><br><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\ufeff<br>\ufeffCritical thinking didn\u2019t go away. It just got more expensive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a long-time developer, the productivity jump is undeniable\u2014MVPs that used to take weeks now take hours. But something feels off. The role of the traditional software developer is clearly shifting, and not everyone wants to admit it yet. I won&#8217;t pretend to have the answers. I do have reading material that\u2019s actually thoughtful: \ufeff\ufeffCritical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchkeeperholdings.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchkeeperholdings.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchkeeperholdings.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchkeeperholdings.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchkeeperholdings.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/watchkeeperholdings.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97,"href":"https:\/\/watchkeeperholdings.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchkeeperholdings.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchkeeperholdings.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchkeeperholdings.com\/insight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}