“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers

Well this is awkward. Literally yesterday I wrote “the hard part of software engineering was never writing the code.” I concede that that way of describing what’s happening to the software industry is a bit lazy and exaggerated. Nobody knows how the AI revolution will play out in the end, but it is clear many aspects of work and life will be transformed—including programming. This definitely feels…