Dev says he's now 95% a code reviewer: generic SWE is probably over
BumrahBachi · x · 2026-09-04
Developer BumrahBachi quotes his own February tweet to declare "the music has stopped": after adopting Codex, he spends 95% of his time reviewing code rather than writing it.
He argues complex specialized subfields remain and last-mile automation is still hard, but being a generic software engineer is likely over — and without substantial capital, physical work, or a job at OpenAI/Anthropic, careers face diminishing meaning.
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