....so I guess I gotta try making a game or something, my dreams said so. chatting with @thedeepedge.bsky.social i was lamenting there's no way for me to show off my SwEng skills.... okay but this would be a way to do that.......
September 17, 2026 at 2:42 AM
....so I guess I gotta try making a game or something, my dreams said so. chatting with @thedeepedge.bsky.social i was lamenting there's no way for me to show off my SwEng skills.... okay but this would be a way to do that.......
and it's even worse if you're not in an 'engineering' role where the big corp decides you don't need real sweng tools.
September 16, 2026 at 1:36 PM
and it's even worse if you're not in an 'engineering' role where the big corp decides you don't need real sweng tools.
SwEng education in the LLM age has lots of interesting unanswered questions. But a few skills like reasoning about larger systems, structuring code well and communicating about code to others don’t seem to come easily as a by-product of vibe coding whereas it did for handwriting code.
September 13, 2026 at 10:42 AM
SwEng education in the LLM age has lots of interesting unanswered questions. But a few skills like reasoning about larger systems, structuring code well and communicating about code to others don’t seem to come easily as a by-product of vibe coding whereas it did for handwriting code.
I hate it but it has taken over sweng. It's basically mandated and if it's not you have to compete with AI devs who can churn out piles of shiny code in any language that mgmt is amazed by. So I've given up, I use it now, I've lost my main passion, but I won't say it's good
September 4, 2026 at 7:48 AM
I hate it but it has taken over sweng. It's basically mandated and if it's not you have to compete with AI devs who can churn out piles of shiny code in any language that mgmt is amazed by. So I've given up, I use it now, I've lost my main passion, but I won't say it's good
i’m not encouraged by the roles they’re hiring for. dozen sweng and 0 security people sorta thing.
im sure its fine but i wouldnt use the version they host.
im sure its fine but i wouldnt use the version they host.
September 3, 2026 at 3:12 AM
i’m not encouraged by the roles they’re hiring for. dozen sweng and 0 security people sorta thing.
im sure its fine but i wouldnt use the version they host.
im sure its fine but i wouldnt use the version they host.
Yes. At least at my tech co (same industry Tom seems to be in), about a quarter of software engineers have no adjective, a quarter have "senior", a quarter have "senior II", and the rest are above that. Plain "senior" is less senior to the median sweng. "Senior" is pretty solidly mid-level here.
September 2, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Yes. At least at my tech co (same industry Tom seems to be in), about a quarter of software engineers have no adjective, a quarter have "senior", a quarter have "senior II", and the rest are above that. Plain "senior" is less senior to the median sweng. "Senior" is pretty solidly mid-level here.
Same in SWEng. Designing, coding, and debugging are fun puzzles, but LLMs turns us into managers directing multiple agents, deciding what we have to review in depth and what we can skim. The puzzle is now how to divide the task across agents, and how to keep my voice in the code. Not as fun.
August 3, 2026 at 4:17 AM
Same in SWEng. Designing, coding, and debugging are fun puzzles, but LLMs turns us into managers directing multiple agents, deciding what we have to review in depth and what we can skim. The puzzle is now how to divide the task across agents, and how to keep my voice in the code. Not as fun.
the only thing worthy of pride in sweng is a red diff
August 2, 2026 at 6:24 PM
the only thing worthy of pride in sweng is a red diff
i have a blogpost idea about a sweng opinion i hold VERY strongly but... should there really be another post on the web about sweng practices?
July 28, 2026 at 2:50 AM
i have a blogpost idea about a sweng opinion i hold VERY strongly but... should there really be another post on the web about sweng practices?
i am the worst sweng i know so like if i can do this i’m sure literally anyone can
have fun i guess? jeeboard is quite mediocre but like there's probably something here steady-company.surge.sh
jeeboard playground
steady-company.surge.sh
July 27, 2026 at 9:11 AM
i am the worst sweng i know so like if i can do this i’m sure literally anyone can
And, like, folks seem weirdly far more cool with that when talking about Claude Code than they do when talking about using LLMs to generate essays or images or music or whatever. The concern is all about the quality of code or threat to SWEng jobs or burnout - all valid, but ethics weirdly absent.
July 15, 2026 at 3:14 PM
And, like, folks seem weirdly far more cool with that when talking about Claude Code than they do when talking about using LLMs to generate essays or images or music or whatever. The concern is all about the quality of code or threat to SWEng jobs or burnout - all valid, but ethics weirdly absent.
trying to stand one up for my scout troop and it was being very annoying
i have it running now and am fiddling with site content
i dont looooove that the prose is all just in the database rather than VCSd but im the only sweng in the troop so maybe this is good actually
i have it running now and am fiddling with site content
i dont looooove that the prose is all just in the database rather than VCSd but im the only sweng in the troop so maybe this is good actually
June 30, 2026 at 9:53 AM
trying to stand one up for my scout troop and it was being very annoying
i have it running now and am fiddling with site content
i dont looooove that the prose is all just in the database rather than VCSd but im the only sweng in the troop so maybe this is good actually
i have it running now and am fiddling with site content
i dont looooove that the prose is all just in the database rather than VCSd but im the only sweng in the troop so maybe this is good actually
I can answer the “engineering genius” question: No, he is not. He was above-average in a time when SWEng was a much smaller and a not highly-contested field. By today’s standards he is below average & would struggle to hold down a programming job.
June 13, 2026 at 12:20 PM
I can answer the “engineering genius” question: No, he is not. He was above-average in a time when SWEng was a much smaller and a not highly-contested field. By today’s standards he is below average & would struggle to hold down a programming job.
"We [...] must become more self-reliant as an engineering culture to build for the future. We must increase the value we ship to players while decreasing the time it takes to do so"
Yep that's the keywords for genAI sweng right there ask me how i know
Prepare for slop mandates across all of Xbox
Yep that's the keywords for genAI sweng right there ask me how i know
Prepare for slop mandates across all of Xbox
Xbox is reportedly about to undergo a major wave of layoffs next month, following a five-year period in which the division's revenue dropped nearly half a billion. https://kotaku.com/xbox-reportedly-major-layoffs-next-month-2000705023
Xbox Will Reportedly Undergo Major Layoffs Next Month - Kotaku
The division has apparently seen its revenue drop nearly half a billion dollars in five years
kotaku.com
June 11, 2026 at 12:06 AM
"We [...] must become more self-reliant as an engineering culture to build for the future. We must increase the value we ship to players while decreasing the time it takes to do so"
Yep that's the keywords for genAI sweng right there ask me how i know
Prepare for slop mandates across all of Xbox
Yep that's the keywords for genAI sweng right there ask me how i know
Prepare for slop mandates across all of Xbox
Setting aside that the xitter post was probably a joke
In hindsight, maybe the conceptualization of junior devs as code monkeys was always a mistake, like what does that phase of sweng actually teach people? People don't usually get promoted out of junior for getting good at self-contained tasks
In hindsight, maybe the conceptualization of junior devs as code monkeys was always a mistake, like what does that phase of sweng actually teach people? People don't usually get promoted out of junior for getting good at self-contained tasks
i’ve worked in tech more than 20 years. it has never been more ridiculous.
April 24, 2026 at 1:28 PM
Setting aside that the xitter post was probably a joke
In hindsight, maybe the conceptualization of junior devs as code monkeys was always a mistake, like what does that phase of sweng actually teach people? People don't usually get promoted out of junior for getting good at self-contained tasks
In hindsight, maybe the conceptualization of junior devs as code monkeys was always a mistake, like what does that phase of sweng actually teach people? People don't usually get promoted out of junior for getting good at self-contained tasks
Yoooo, you're majoring in software eng? That's sick. Best of luck from a fellow sweng lifer 🫡
April 14, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Yoooo, you're majoring in software eng? That's sick. Best of luck from a fellow sweng lifer 🫡
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EP156 — El futuro de la Ingeniería de Software: ¿Cambió la fuente de la verdad?, con Juliano Domingues
EP156 — El futuro de la Ingeniería de Software: ¿Cambió la fuente de la verdad?, con Juliano Domingues
Estamos hablando de Ingeniería de Software y de IA, y cómo no hacerlo, sino con nuestro amigo https://www.linkedin.com/in/julianolsdomingues/ (https://www.linkedin.com/company/thoughtworks/posts/). En esta segunda visita al hormiguero, Juliano nos muestra los desafíos y oportunidades para un Ingeniero de Software en esta era de la Inteligencia Artificial.
¿Qué te puedes llevar en este episodio?: “El Nuevo Paradigma: Del Código al Spec”
- La Fuente de la Verdad: El código ahora es efímero y “desechable”. La verdadera autoridad del sistema se desplaza a la especificación (Spec); si el sistema falla, se ajusta el Spec y la IA regenera el código.
- Ingeniería vs. Programación: Escribir sintaxis es tarea de la IA. El valor humano ahora radica en la Ingeniería: entender problemas, diseñar soluciones y estructurar Specs enriquecidos y sin ambigüedades.
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tbh i have the same position as he does on ai, for experienced sweng it's more or less "fine" but for anything else it's kind of really inauthentic and should be avoided
April 7, 2026 at 9:00 PM
tbh i have the same position as he does on ai, for experienced sweng it's more or less "fine" but for anything else it's kind of really inauthentic and should be avoided
as someone who is a SWeng by trade and got laid off due to AI and is watching all of these people succeed while I go almost a whole year finding no job I cannot tell you how much rage it fills me with to watch this tire fire continue
April 2, 2026 at 7:58 PM
as someone who is a SWeng by trade and got laid off due to AI and is watching all of these people succeed while I go almost a whole year finding no job I cannot tell you how much rage it fills me with to watch this tire fire continue
This is a really interesting write-up of a possible sweng-adjacent profession in mid-singularity economics, a software cobbler: nearzero.software/p/warranty-v... 🧵
Warranty Void If Regenerated
Tom Hartmann had not planned to become a Software Mechanic.
nearzero.software
March 18, 2026 at 10:24 PM
This is a really interesting write-up of a possible sweng-adjacent profession in mid-singularity economics, a software cobbler: nearzero.software/p/warranty-v... 🧵
In an online debate about what sweng tactic is best, one is writing personal blogging software in Python, the other is writing embedded C that manipulates the control rods in a nuclear reactor. Neither mentions the project they are talking about.
February 27, 2026 at 8:01 PM
In an online debate about what sweng tactic is best, one is writing personal blogging software in Python, the other is writing embedded C that manipulates the control rods in a nuclear reactor. Neither mentions the project they are talking about.
