Mechanize

At the end of my AI Lent wrap up post post I wrote:

I was sure that I would renounce the use of AI tools for good, and proudly proclaim my newfound wisdom and virtue to the world. Now, I’m not so sure.

I recently stumbled upon this company’s landing page and hiring pitch:

Your job is to build software environments that frontier AI fails at. You’ll do most of the building through coding agents; writing code by hand is too slow now. The models are good enough that finding something they genuinely can’t do is not easy.

This is probably the realisation that makes me reconsider my future in Software Engineering. Agentic coding tools meaningfully make one a faster developer, but personally, they suck the joy out of the career.

I believe work in other fields adapting Software Engineering skills + AI might be something underexplored… potentially.