npm co-founder Laurie Voss: agents are eating SDLC, product engineering pays $240k
round · x · 2026-09-19
npm co-founder Laurie Voss argues in "We are all Product Engineers now" that agents are eating the software development lifecycle bottom-up — code generation is already gone, and review and ops are next. What remains is figuring out what people actually want, which can't be automated or scaled: that job is product engineering, it pays $240k, and nobody is training for it. The linked blog also covers AI's collapse of the junior programmer market (down 19%) and a structural fix for open source funding via registries.
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