The discipline of software engineering is undergoing a foundational re-architecting, driven by the rise of autonomous AI agents. Such a transformation is not incremental; it redefines the engineer's very identity by elevating the role from coding (a cognitive task being automated) to orchestration (a strategic,

How LLM agents present AI software engineering workflows of the future, and whether the focus of programming will shift from scale to trust. Software engineering is undergoing a disruptive phase of greater automation owing to the emergence of large language models (LLMs) that generate and edit code.

Code.org founder and chairman Hadi Partovi on why computer science is a liberal art and software engineering is not dead yet.

This article explains why project scoping, architecture, testing, and human oversight remain essential, even as AI changes how software gets built.

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AI has radically changed what coding looks like. We asked software engineers how they felt about it. Andrej Karpathy coined the term "vibe-coding," or the creation of code using AI. The term has since gained traction among developers worldwide and was ...

For decades, building software required significant cost. You needed people and process. You needed tools, infrastructure, sprint cycles, coordination plus capital, structure, and distribution plans.

Rohan Gore, an engineer at a market research firm, says he still feels useful, but has concerns about the future of the job.