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"Writing code" as a task of its own is called cowboy coding. It's neat that AI can do this now, but that has nothing to do with proper software engineering which always starts from a careful, human-led design.
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"has nothing to do with proper software engineering"

So you're saying software engineers don't write code? Just because there are other things that SWEs do, does not mean it has nothing to do with it.

It's arguably a pretty important part. Would you really hire a software engineer who can't code?

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Writing code and copying the output of an LLM is absolutely not the same.

You wouldn't call someone an author that takes LLM outputs and shoves it in a book. IDK why this distinction doesn't apply to devs too.

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What's a good example of human-led design?
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