The death of software engineering (and all other fields)

Over the last few months, AI has been making undeniable leaps. I hadn’t digested news of the Jacobian conjecture being conquered when notifications popped up alerting me that Navier-Stokes had been solved! It felt like we might be in a new era. As if to mark it for certain, earlier this month, a GitHub repo with incredible progress on 700+ math problems - including the untouchable Riemann hypothesis - was released to the world. To me, it was not dissimilar to a massive maple shedding a pithy leaf. On the software front, where I’m actively involved, I went from manually writing code a year ago to being a glorified button pusher. I try not to be, for what joy is there in button-pushing? And what value is a button-pusher? Ideally, I’d like to deeply understand all the abstractions and details, but that would take time and in that time, the team-next-door would send another hundred code reviews. Okay, so maybe I should just send code reviews. And now I have double the number of…