Everything's changed. Here's what I would do if I were starting from scratch getting into software engineering.

t-shirt change for the ad read is 🔥!

lol, yeah, it worked out pretty well 😆

@grok summarize it into bullet points please

Appreciate you!

Starting from scratch now means learning to read and review code before writing lots of it. Agents produce plenty of output; the scarce skill is knowing which output is wrong and why.

ngl, 'Everything's changed' is a stressful first line, i'd need coffee before reading on lol

great video @kentcdodds

Thanks!

Learn to debug. Agents write it, you still fix it.

Fantastic video!

I'd say build something real for a real business, one angry customer teaches more than ten tutorials 😂

If I were starting over, I'd learn how the business I'm coding for actually makes money way earlier. It took leaving enterprise for me to figure that part out. It was too easy to stay in my code monkey cubicle (literally and figuratively).

Greetings from australia. 100% on point. Greet advice for young and old in the game.

So well articulated! Communicating intent, debating with the agent to finalise the plan and spec is what is needed when agents are coding and verifying as well for you. Noticing the gap before the agents takes the onus of guessing is like the pro tip here.

So basically, try to pick up a new career while doing side gigs with your current software skills. coding is already done, and models will be good doing system design on their own then why bother. Start looking for w new career and wait until they are good at system design.

Fundamentals plus curiosity probably still wins. Everything else just moves faster now.

If I was starting now I'd learn verification first. Agents write code faster than anyone can read it. Knowing how to make them prove it works, and turning repeat mistakes into rules, is the skill that doesn't get cheaper.

Graduating next year so this is timely. Would you still tell a fresher to go deep on one stack first, or go broad now that agents cover a lot of the gaps?