Boris Cherny argues the “software engineer” title will start disappearing in 2026 as coding gets absorbed into a generic “builder” role, predicting 100x more people writing code (or directing agents to) even as individual companies hire fewer traditional engineers. He grounds the disruption in historical analogies (tractors, PCs, washing machines) while conceding “coding is solved” only applies to small, new codebases – not the NASA-scale legacy systems where judgment still rules.
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