Ex-Shopify Engineer Says Software Engineering Is Transforming in the Agent Era

Former Shopify engineer poteto argues in a viral post that AI agents are radically changing software engineering, suggesting traditional engineering instincts may one day no longer matter and that metrics like lines of code could regain relevance.

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