SWE jobs change rather than disappear: junior onboarding compressed, docs unread

graceisford · x · 2026-10-31

Part 3 of graceisford's dinner thread: engineering jobs won't go away — the role just gets renamed; junior onboarding is compressed; engineers no longer read docs, they just run things through agents.

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