Why engineering isn’t just coding (and AI won’t change that)
September 22, 2025
AI can write code quickly, and leadership teams everywhere are having the same thought, they think they’ve cracked the secret to faster, cheaper software development. “Why do we need all these engineers when AI can just… write the code for us?”
It’s the same energy as thinking you can replace a chef with a microwave because both of them heat up food.
Source: Why engineering isn’t just coding (and AI won’t change that) | by Gemma Croad
Hot on the heels of our engineering AI conference a couple of weeks ago, one of the attendees has written this piece. Here Gemma Crode reminds us that software engineering is far more than simply generating code. Something that developers know, but it’s perhaps far less obvious to folks outside the practise of software engineering.
