Sarcasm: programming is dead, as long as you still have great engineers
RexDouglass · x · 2026-11-06
GhostOfSocrates sarcastically declared "software engineering and programming are dead — you just need perfect specs, unchanging requirements, an agentic deployment framework for high-frequency releases, and engineers with good taste and judgement." RexDouglass endorsed it: "Correct." The irony: the supposed post-engineer world still depends entirely on engineers.
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