CyberSec Tales

Only time will tell, but as of today, I still don’t see AI replacing software engineers.

Will it replace programmers in the narrow “just write the code” sense? Yeah, in a lot of cases. But software engineering is way bigger than typing code. Remember: the construction phase (which includes coding) is only about 20% of building a software product. The other 80%—requirements, design, tradeoffs, security, testing, deployment, operations, stakeholder alignment—shapes what that code even should be.

What AI is doing is making engineers a lot more productive. Just don’t expect that to mean more free time. If you can deliver more, the industry will ask for more.

Also, the “flex” is changing. You don’t have to memorize every language quirk or crank out code at warp speed solo like before. Now you’re expected to go wider: Infrastructure as Code, cloud, DevOps, multiple data sources, multiple AI frameworks, agents, front end, back end… that whole stack is increasingly just part of the job.