From 'software engineering is dead' to ordering 12 textbooks: a dev's 8-stage AI coding arc
mattpocockuk · x · 2026-10-07
A developer maps out his full emotional arc with AI coding: shock that AI codes better than him, declaring software engineering dead, mass vibe-coding slop, discovering models like Opus still fall apart, constraining the agent into a 'straitjacket', getting good results, then ordering 12 software engineering books from Amazon. His punchline: software engineering is alive again — a widely resonant take on the industry's disillusionment-and-return-to-fundamentals cycle.
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