#software-engineering

#software-engineering

The recently updated SWEBOK Guide v4.0a represents a needful industry standard, following a thorough peer review and a consensus-based approach. With the rise of AI, a significant skills gap in IT and cybersecurity is emerging alongside changes in the global workforce. There has never been a greater need for a consensus-based framework. This guide, created and thoroughly reviewed by industry professionals, serves as a dynamic and evolving resource.

"This has been said a thousand times before, but allow me to add my own voice: the era of humans writing code is over," Dahl wrote. "Disturbing for those of us who identify as SWEs, but no less true. That's not to say SWEs don't have work to do, but writing syntax directly is not it."

Just as software finished eating the world, zero interest rates ended. Companies optimized for cash and slowed hiring. The market didn't shrink, but stopped growing at the breakneck pace we all expected. The result: a glut of entry level talent groomed for jobs that never materialized. This would explain a more competitive entry level market. But it doesn't explain the entry-level market shrinking, despite overall industry growth. In short: demand for senior talent is rising, but has fallen off a cliff for juniors.

OpenAI has released GPT-5.2-Codex, a new version of its agentic AI model for software development that focuses specifically on professional software engineering and cybersecurity. The model builds on GPT-5.2 but has been further optimized to work independently within complex development environments. With this release, OpenAI is positioning Codex not just as a programming assistant but as a broader support technology for the entire software development process.

"The vast majority of Codex is built by Codex," OpenAI told us about its new AI coding agent. In interviews with Ars Technica this week, OpenAI employees revealed the extent to which the company now relies on its own AI coding agent, Codex, to build and improve the development tool. "I think the vast majority of Codex is built by Codex, so it's almost entirely just being used to improve itself," said Alexander Embiricos, product lead for Codex at OpenAI, in a conversation on Tuesday.

I moved to the US from India in 2021 to attend Amherst College, where I triple-majored in computer science, mathematics, and statistics. During my freshman year, I developed a support system for statistical programming that became part of an introductory statistics course. Opportunities to talk about my work on and off campus started coming up, which led to different perspectives, insights, and connections. I thought about how I could scale this up to a broader audience.

"While businesses aren't investing, it's hard to make much progress in the software world," Fowler said. "And so we have this weird mix of no investment, pretty much depression in the software industry, with an AI bubble going on."

IT development has been around for more than 60 years and it has undergone radical transformations from the emergence of the first programming languages and OS development to the internet boom and the current AI era. Although programming tools and approaches are constantly changing, one thing remains constant: Only those developers who can adapt and master new knowledge and skills survive.

Your competitors aren't building perfect code either. If you spend 6 months building the theoretically perfect architecture, they'll ship something "good enough" in 2 months and eat your lunch. You'll have beautiful code that nobody uses. Tech debt is the cost of moving fast enough to win. The biggest risk in software isn't technical debt-it's being irrelevant. Markets move fast. User needs evolve. Competitors iterate. While you're refactoring for the third time to achieve "clean architecture," your competitor is talking to users, learning what actually matters, and shipping features that solve real problems.

One of the most notable innovations is support for compaction, a technique that enables the model to seamlessly manage multiple context windows and perform tasks involving millions of tokens within a single session. This enables large-scale refactors, extensive debugging rounds, and work cycles lasting several hours. GPT-5.1-Codex-Max is available immediately within the Codex environment in the CLI, IDE extension, and cloud; API access will follow later.

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technical skills don't cut it.

"I made this prediction that, you know, in six months, 90% of code would be written by AI models," Amodei said. "Some people think that prediction is wrong, but within Anthropic and within a number of companies that we work with, that is absolutely true now."

"Five years from now, we'll have more engineers working for our company than we do today," Cannon-Brookes said.

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"As tasks get automated within a job, your output in that job can go up tremendously, and that will then have a different range of impacts depending on the segment that company is in, or depending on what role that person is in," Levie said. Software engineering has been at the center of the debate on job replacement, as AI coding tools have automated many aspects of the work, and many recent grads are struggling to find jobs.

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Gill's prediction has come true: developers are now regularly using AI coding assistants to generate code, but the output is often buggy, forcing engineers to spend a lot of time on corrections. CodeRabbit can help catch some of the errors. The business has been growing 20% a month and is now making more than $15 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR), according to Gill.

On the "OpenAI Podcast," which aired on Monday, cofounder and president Greg Brockman and Codex engineering lead Thibault Sottiaux outlined a vision of vast networks of autonomous AI agents supervised by humans but capable of working continuously in the cloud as full-fledged collaborators. "We have strong conviction that the way that this is headed is large populations of agents somewhere in the cloud that we as humanity, as people, teams, organizations supervise and steer in order to produce great economical value," Sottiaux said.

I got my Master's in Computer Science in 2011, and like others, I got tracked into coding as a software engineer. I started my career as a Java engineer developing software applications. Six or seven years later, I came across the profile of machine learning. Machine learning was not in a boom at that moment. The projects we got were almost always software engineering; machine learning projects were really, really hard to get.

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