Getting rid of software engineers could be the Doorman Fallacy[1]. How much of the job is writing new code? A lot of it is solve problems/maintenance, improvements, integrations with other systems, update existing implementation, delivery automation support.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doorman_fallacy

This article does a whole lot of "they" and "we" with which I strongly disagree.

Well (human) written article, and I do sense all of this around me. Rather than go into denial, I think it would help everyone to discuss the core points: SWE is no longer a differentiated role that could gatekeep the way it did.

This means the newer SWEs have to now get some real-world connection / get their hands literally dirty to be valuable.

This is a kind of narrow-minded view of software engineering that tries to say that there is no effort in this profession. I must say that there is effort in every job because people put their valuable time into it. I myself am in the robotics sector and I must say that I think the most damage and layoffs will be to the workers and drivers, and you will see this.

> A serious technological transformation is taking place. Denying its existence or impact would be about as useful as insisting the internet was a fad in 1998.

Well yes the internet was here to stay, but if you used that line of thinking to invest heavily in the DotCom sector at that time you were in for a rude awakening.

There’s a major difference between rejecting a technology and rejecting how it’s being packaged and sold.