Ofir Press: social, empathetic sub-roles of SWE will resist automation for a long time
OfirPress · x · 2026-10-25
Responding to "I can't predict 3 months from now," Ofir Press clarifies his position on automating software engineering:
- The SWE role contains many non-computer (social, empathetic) sub-roles that he believes will take a very long time to automate
- The human+machine > machine+machine paradigm in SWE will hold for a while longer
Related event: Researcher: SWE Jobs Have Changed but Demand Persists for 20 More Years(4 posts)→
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