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Most of what we called software engineering was pattern-application — work that AI now does cheaply. The bundle is dissolving, and what remains is a smaller, distinct activity that deserves the engineering name.
The agentic transition isn't a productivity upgrade for software engineering — it's a phase shift into a management-shaped role most senior ICs explicitly opted out of decades ago.
When implementation labor is commoditized, the practitioner's bottleneck moves from feature prioritization to change management and judgment.