Genomics software veteran on grieving hand-coding and redefining engineering with agents
jmschreiber91 · x · 2026-10-30
An engineer with over a decade writing genomics software describes going through an identity crisis — and the stages of grief — as agents reshape hand-coding. Rather than give up, he sketched what the "new" software engineering looks like with agents. The methodology is admittedly imperfect since things move fast; he shares it publicly to gather feedback, with the underlying code and skills improving on every automated run.
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