Engineers Push Back: AI Labs and the Public Confuse Web Dev With Software Engineering

gerardsans · x · 2026-09-05

Replying to a thread arguing people mistake web development — a small subset — for the entire field of software engineering, gerardsans says AI labs and the public don't grasp what software engineering actually is: coding tools like Codex/Code ship with no safety boundaries, everything gets stuffed into context, and there's no access control. "It's a mess."

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