--- title: "Software Engineers are Obsolete" url: https://daily.dev/posts/software-engineers-are-obsolete-u0mexbdss source_url: https://idiallo.com/blog/everyone-is-better-than-you type: article source: "Ibrahim Diallo" published: 2026-05-13T22:44:35.092Z updated: 2026-05-13T22:45:09.056Z tags: ["ai-coding", "vibe-coding"] reading_time: 6 upvotes: 2 comments: 2 language: 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 Obsolete **[Ibrahim Diallo](https://daily.dev/sources/idiallo)** · 6 min read · 2 upvotes · 2 comments ## Summary A veteran software engineer reflects on how AI tools have democratized software creation, making non-programmers capable of building and shipping products. The author grapples with feeling obsolete as friends and family bypass developers entirely, using AI agents to build platforms from single prompts. Despite the existential anxiety, the author argues that traditional engineers who learned through debugging, reading docs, and writing real code will ultimately remain essential — because software must be maintained, not just created. The piece draws a parallel between today's AI hype and the Silverlight era, warning against betting everything on a single technology. ## 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. **@confidentcoding** · 1 upvotes > This is a decent write-up, but I find that we're going through another phase of the no-code craze which ALSO heralded the end of the software developer, and which ended in the same way that this one likely will too: with the realization that **launch day is just the beginning**. > > ![image.png](https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--iRh6F0bs--/f_auto/v1778713250/ugc/content_67ff2791-1ff3-49b2-a9a7-57c70b73ef5f?_a=BAMAMiWQ0) > > [https://www.wired.com/story/new-startup-no-code-no-problem/](https://www.wired.com/story/new-startup-no-code-no-problem/) **@guglielmorizzo** · 1 upvotes > ``` > We've been bombarded by AI for several years now, even in a slow market like the Italian one, various agents and software are being adopted, but in essence, I haven't formed an opinion on it yet. > I mean, I'm aware that it's a very powerful tool, I'm aware that the technology is growing at an absurd rate, but at the same time, I see that unless you're a large, powerful company, using AI and integrating it into internal projects is truly complicated. > For example, I've been working for at least a year on a relatively new software (5/6 years old), and it's perfectly customized for what it... ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Software Engineering Is Not Dead](https://daily.dev/posts/software-engineering-is-not-dead-yvleikk0b) · Atomic Spin · 3 upvotes · 0 comments - [Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career](https://daily.dev/posts/software-engineering-may-no-longer-be-a-lifetime-career-spsyq1hbc) · Hacker News · 59 upvotes · 14 comments --- Tags: [#ai-coding](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-coding), [#vibe-coding](https://daily.dev/tags/vibe-coding) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/software-engineers-are-obsolete-u0mexbdss)