How AI is redefining Software Engineering
The article discusses the evolving role of software engineers in the age of AI and large language models (LLMs). It highlights a personal journey from traditional coding to leveraging AI tools for code generation and management. The author reflects on how AI has shifted their focus from writing code to overseeing architecture and specifications.
- ▪The author initially used LLMs as brainstorming tools while still writing code by hand.
- ▪A significant change occurred when the quality of AI-generated code improved, allowing for less hands-on coding.
- ▪The author now focuses on high-level design and oversight rather than typing code themselves.
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@adlrocha - How AI Is Redefining Software EngineeringFrom Coder to Agent Manager: how I stopped writing code by hand after more than a decade of daily practice.adlrochaMay 24, 2026ShareAfter the detour we made the last few weeks exploring the state of the hardware and software stack of local AI inference, I want to come back to one of the topics I promised to address in my posts about agent engineering. In this post I want to try to answer a question that I’ve been asking myself since the last time I wrote a line of code by hand.
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