AI & the Future of Software Engineering
Despite agents writing ~100% of code, demand for software engineers is rising not falling — because automation is expanding the total surface area of software, not replacing the need for it.
What we know
Aaron Levie (an account on X) counters the 'end of software engineering' prediction by noting more engineers exist today than in 2025, they work harder than ever, and AI/agents have expanded what software can do, pulling demand upward (tweet). On the dev tooling side, another account on X is experimenting with TypeScript via WASM via Rust without wasm_bindgen (tweet) and pushing passkeys/P256 signers as the obvious crypto UX fix (tweet).
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