Reflections on Software Engineering in the Age of AI

# Summary As AI has become proficient at code generation by learning from trillions of lines of source code, the software engineering workflow has shifted from developers doing the hard thinking and writing code themselves to supervising AI-generated code as an editor. While AI can produce functional code quickly, senior developers must still review and correct it because AI lacks the institutional knowledge and systems-level understanding needed to catch legal compliance issues, performance problems, security vulnerabilities, and conflicts with existing or planned features.