Software Engineering won't be over

Every few months, software engineering will be over in a few months again. It can’t be, but for reasons you might not expect. When coming back to work in the beginning of 2026, organizations everywhere were going crazy. So many people, including lots of upper management, had used the winter break to build software with AI and felt that software engineering was over. They had experienced it first-hand. Everything had changed, because look at what they built! Why couldn’t work feel the same? Their experiences were real, but they happened in isolation. Building software by yourself is orders of magnitude easier than building it in a team, or across multiple teams. The hard problem at work was never just about writing code. Their experiences didn’t reflect the challenges of the organization they worked in. Organizations divide ownership Organizations aren’t challenging simply because their structure is wrong and they need to fix it. Their structure might be wrong, but every structure is…