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AI Code Generation Shifts Engineer Role to Systems Manager
AI can now generate basic code like API endpoints and React components reliably, making code production cheap. The real value of software engineering now lies in architectural judgment, managing complexity, and deciding what not to build. Engineers will be evaluated on systemic capability rather than lines of code written.
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The article correctly identifies a key shift but overstates the novelty; systems thinking has always been critical, and AI is merely accelerating an existing trend.
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