News Summary

• Software engineering has always contained a lot of work that is only loosely related to the problem being solved.
• Most of this was a toll we paid between understanding a problem and changing the system.
• If an agent can take care of more of that translation, I have more time for the part that required an engineer in the first place.
• The work did not vanish.
• Less of it lives in producing every character by hand.
• More of it living in direction, judgment, verification, and responsibility.