Everyone Is an Engineer Now
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- - Despite headlines predicting the end of software engineering, the author sees more people coding than ever before.
- - Examples include a product designer building iOS apps, a 66-year-old writing Python/SQL, and a friend automating a nursery.
- - Developer platforms like GitHub, Vercel, and Supabase show record growth, with US developers up 25% year-over-year.
- - Employment surveys indicate professional software developers reached an all-time high in the US in 2026.
- - Computer Science remains the top major at Princeton, and engineering fields continue to grow.
- - The real narrative is not extinction but the democratization and ubiquity of software engineering, fueled by AI, oversupply of CS grads, and lower barriers to entry.
- - The central question is whether developers will evolve and adapt or face a passenger pigeon-like demise.