--- title: The future of Software Engineering is boring | daily.dev description: AI-generated code has made programming less prestigious and more about caretaking than problem-solving, Alex Pliutau argues. He identifies three problems:... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/p8gnv630m twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The future of Software Engineering is boring | daily.dev og:description: AI-generated code has made programming less prestigious and more about caretaking than problem-solving, Alex Pliutau argues. He identifies three problems:... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/p8gnv630m og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/P8gnv630M.png og:image:alt: Post cover image og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The future of Software Engineering is boring **[packagemain.tech](https://daily.dev/sources/packagemain)** · [@alexpliutau](https://daily.dev/alexpliutau) · 25 upvotes · 4 comments ## Summary AI-generated code has made programming less prestigious and more about caretaking than problem-solving, Alex Pliutau argues. He identifies three problems: shortcuts to solutions skip the learning process that reading and research once required, AI-generated code inevitably erodes codebases through bloat and skipped reviews, and AI-generated communication adds noise while managers expect more output simply because AI exists. He quotes the review adage that a 10-line pull request gets 10 comments while a 500-line one gets 'LGTM'. His conclusion: engineers are becoming caretakers of code nobody really understands. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@parsam** · 4 upvotes > big PRs get LGTM because reviewers spend their attention on whatever’s easy to read, not on what’s risky. sorting the queue by risk before review fixes more than “review harder” ever did > > a[ PRI (production reliability index) ](https://tomosu.ai/)score is one way to do that, it puts a ready / not ready verdict on each PR before anyone opens it **@drakeboley** · 1 upvotes > I disagree. We're at a technological plateau, but that's just because the major innovations made in the past 6 months haven't fully shipped yet. > > Maybe some of those are mine. Maybe lots of them. **@elmarchavez** · 0 upvotes > Right on the money. Even though I just hopped in the tech industry a year ago, I fully agree that removing the friction of learning is worse for all software engineers. The brain needs it's challenge. It's as simple as it gets. **@user0078** · 0 upvotes > I totally agree with you @alexpliutau. The only way forward is not to use AI for programming... or use it just like google search but not for generating code... Otherwise you will loose your skill. This was researched in one of scientific papers, here is the link [https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.20245](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.20245). ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [A grumpy screed about AI in software engineering](https://daily.dev/posts/a-grumpy-screed-about-ai-in-software-engineering-myqyn9ozs) · Hacker News · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [AI still needs humans](https://daily.dev/posts/ai-still-needs-humans-nml187ik0) · InfoWorld · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Why Writing Code Is Becoming the Easy Part of Software Engineering](https://daily.dev/posts/why-writing-code-is-becoming-the-easy-part-of-software-engineering-t5jcq3uro) · Medium · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Get out of your developer bubble to survive the AI bubble](https://daily.dev/posts/get-out-of-your-developer-bubble-to-survive-the-ai-bubble-yj8wtvnig) · Stack Overflow Blog · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#productivity](https://daily.dev/tags/productivity), [#ai-coding](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-coding), [#code-review](https://daily.dev/tags/code-review) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/p8gnv630m) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https://daily.dev/posts/p8gnv630m","headline":"The future of Software Engineering is boring","text":"Shared: The future of Software Engineering is boring","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/p8gnv630m","datePublished":"2026-11-08T14:14:39.455Z","dateModified":"2026-11-08T14:15:54.679Z","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Alex Pliutau","url":"https://daily.dev/alexpliutau","image":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a/ACg8ocLXExzpASLVyFJkZE0dfR0CaUsC2qf8cbhPT71UvOuY1tYMh30epA=s96-c","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"EndorseAction"},"userInteractionCount":3870}},"image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--foaA6JGU--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2004","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":25},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":4}],"sharedContent":{"@type":"WebPage","url":"https://api.daily.dev/r/ZxXwlfyEu"},"comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"big PRs get LGTM because reviewers spend their attention on whatever’s easy to read, not on what’s risky. sorting the queue by risk before review fixes more than “review harder” ever did\na PRI (production reliability index) score is one way to do that, it puts a ready / not ready verdict on each PR before anyone opens it","datePublished":"2026-11-09T11:25:59.835Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/P8gnv630M#c-C7yIu9vLz","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Parsa","url":"https://daily.dev/parsam","image":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a/ACg8ocI7cLcjVdmLqIn3k8yJcwf5xcUYqgUd6d2dh6oiY59utH1geA=s96-c"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":4}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"I disagree. We’re at a technological plateau, but that’s just because the major innovations made in the past 6 months haven’t fully shipped yet.\nMaybe some of those are mine. Maybe lots of them.","datePublished":"2026-11-09T16:10:21.700Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/P8gnv630M#c-aydpqTZct","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Drake Boley","url":"https://daily.dev/drakeboley","image":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a/ACg8ocInDqBr3mIGG861l52WRmtmkcZZ2bf7p1G-l4ljGfAyeU_Wwg=s96-c"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Right on the money. Even though I just hopped in the tech industry a year ago, I fully agree that removing the friction of learning is worse for all software engineers. The brain needs it’s challenge. 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