engineer away the slop

🎉It's been a busy six months, that's for sure. I'm not going to bury the lede here; the short TLDR is I'm joining the folks over at https://antithesis.com/. If I wind back time to November 2024, it was apparent to me back then that our profession would change. To be frank, in the last six months our profession has changed more than it has in the last 30 years. Software authoring has been commoditised. Everyone is now a software developer, but being a software developer does not mean that they're an engineer.The word engineer is used trivially in our profession, but in other industries the word engineer means failures are unacceptable.Now I'm a little bit old and crusty these days; I turn 44 next week, and I've seen some absolutely horrible codebases, but if I'm to be honest, I can remember some of the first code that I wrote, and I have regrets. If you caught my talk at the AI Engineer World Fair, one of the things I shared was some deep concerns that we are entering into another…