When AI writes almost all code: Pragmatic Engineer on the birth of Product Engineering
carlcarrie · x · 2026-11-01
Gergely Orosz unpaywalled his deep dive on what happens to software engineering when AI writes nearly all the code. He shares firsthand experience shipping hundreds of production lines via prompting with Opus 4.5 and GPT 5.2, plus building software from his phone using Claude Code for Web and GitHub. Originally paid, the piece was freed after DHH's Rails World keynote revealed 37signals now generates all code with AI — a mega-trend reframing the discipline as "Product Engineering."
- Key claim: software engineering survives, but evolves as AI takes over hand-writing code.
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