The Future of Software Engineering: Efficiency, Learning Velocity, Small Teams, and Reasoning Under Change

The conversation about AI and the future of software engineering is often framed incorrectly. It usually oscillates between two extremes (total replacement or total irrelevance). Both are intellectually lazy. A better framing is simpler (and more uncomfortable): AI will not replace software engineers. It will replace inefficiency. And paradoxically, when inefficiency is removed from a profession,…