About six weeks ago I wrote We are all Product Engineers now, an exploration of what LLM-written code is doing to the job of software development. A few weeks after that I turned it into an AI Engineer New York talk, which at a quarter-million views is now by far the most-watched talk I’ve ever given. The talk and the post both end with an exhortation: we have to figure out how to hire new engineers to do the vastly-changed job of software development now that “programming” isn’t part of that job description. This is a monumental shift and there...