'Software engineering is dead'? Dev lists databases, K8s, LLM ops that English won't replace
ashishllm · x · 2026-09-21
Responding to podcasters claiming "software engineering is dead, English will be a coding language," developer ashishllm asks who will handle databases, GPUs, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, Redis, cloud infra, LLM inferencing, fine-tuning, deployment, monitoring, versioning, rollbacks, serverless, load distribution, cron jobs, and rate limiting. A pointed rebuttal to the natural-language-replaces-coding narrative.
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