Programming

0:00 / 0:00 music to be played with this post. It first occurred to me when I tried out Windsurf. This was the old Claude Sonnet 3.5. The AI made a few edits to my code in response to my query, in quick succession. The code was bad, and it didn't work. However, this was enough. I always thought this might happen, and when it finally did, I felt mentally prepared for it.I knew this was the beginning of the end of my software engineering career.It had just been about two and a half years since writing software professionally, but really, I had been programming for quite a lot longer than that.A decade and a half ago, I was already really into technology. The first program I ever shipped was in VB.NET, after looking up a YouTube video to learn about programming. Why did eleven year old me pick up Visual Basic of all languages? Well, I didn't want to do C++, I knew that would be coming up in our high school curriculum anyway. My brother was already learning Java, and I didn't want to…