What happens when the coding becomes the least interesting part of the work
December 18, 2025
That judgment is the job of a senior engineer. As far as I can tell, nobody is replacing that job with a coding agent anytime soon. Or if they are, they’re not talking about it publicly. I think it’s the former, and one of the main reasons is that there is probably not that much spelled-out practical knowledge about how to do the job of a senior engineer in frontier models’ base knowledge, the stuff that they get from their primary training by ingesting the whole internet.
Thoughts by an experienced software engineer on working with large language models. It’s an irony that as we become experienced software engineers, traditionally we’ve written less and less software.
This is a trend that is perhaps changing as large language models become increasingly capable of generating code.
