Software Engineering Is Dead. Long Live Product Engineering ---- - 27 minutes ago | 5 points | 0 comments - URL: https://newsletter.chainofthought.show/p/software-engineering-is-dead-long - Discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49956358 - Summary: The article argues that AI has made coding cheap, shifting the role of engineers from writing code to product engineering—understanding user needs and providing context to AI agents. Laurie Voss, npm co-founder, compares this to 1960s systems analysts. Product sense, customer interaction, and context engineering become key skills. Agents still struggle with maintenance and customer-facing roles, but the trend is accelerating. The author predicts this shift will happen in 2-5 years, not 10. Junior engineers face challenges as AI handles execution work, so building in public and creating open-source projects is advised. Companies need to reinvest in apprenticeships and training for requirement extraction. The piece ends with a cautionary note about an impending bubble, similar to 1997 web era, but with time to retrain.