--- title: Software Engineers Are Becoming More Like Lawyers description: A software tester working on a project systematically testing Claude Opus as a coding agent describes how the role of engineers is shifting away from writing... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/software-engineers-are-becoming-more-like-lawyers-mnadlpxj0 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Software Engineers Are Becoming More Like Lawyers | daily.dev og:description: A software tester working on a project systematically testing Claude Opus as a coding agent describes how the role of engineers is shifting away from writing... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/software-engineers-are-becoming-more-like-lawyers-mnadlpxj0 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/MNadLPxJ0.png og:image:alt: Software Engineers Are Becoming More Like Lawyers 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. # Software Engineers Are Becoming More Like Lawyers **[Satisfice](https://daily.dev/sources/satisfice)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A software tester working on a project systematically testing Claude Opus as a coding agent describes how the role of engineers is shifting away from writing code toward reading, analyzing, and arguing over documentation that governs AI agent behavior. The author compares this new work to legal and expert-witness work: debating with AI 'skills' agents over whether bug reports meet documented behavioral criteria. The piece argues this reflects a broader trend as the 'AI-driven development life cycle' (AIDLC) reshapes engineers into generalist thinkers who must be analytical, assertive, critical, and trustworthy rather than primarily technical coders. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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