💭 Oxide and Friends 1/5/2026 -- Predictions 2026!! - YouTube
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I thought this was an interesting take from Simon. I've been hearing him consistently say there will be more demand for software engineering in the future. More companies will have the ability and need to deal with software applications, but fewer of us will be hand editing any code. I thought this was an interesting interaction in the clip.
Uh Simon, what do you got for us?
I've just got the one. I think the act
of the the the job of being paid money to type code into a computer Yeah.
will go the same way as punching punch cards.
Okay.
I do I think in
six years time I do not think it will anyone will be paid to 80:56 just do the thing where you type the code.
Just type the code. Okay.
I think software engineering will still be an enormous career. I just think the software engineers won't be spending multiple hours of their day in a text editor typing out syntax. 81:09
It will look like punching cards. I think so. Yeah.
Yeah. Interesting. In uh in six years. Um and but software engineering still very much exists.
I believe so. I I hope so. [laughter] I very much hope so because I think
the um the challenge of being a software 81:23 engineer is not remembering
how if what what if what for loops look like. It is understanding what computers can do and how to turn fuzzy human requirements into actual like working software. And that's that's what we're for. And I think we'll still be doing that just a lot more of it in a lot more ambitious scale.
And then Okay. Do you Does the software engineer though deals with code? I mean they I mean the code is being written.
I think they probably look at it occasionally.
Okay. Only occasionally a little bit. So I met 81:53
Who debugs it?
Um I I hate to say it, the agents debug it themselves.
Okay. Who debugs your device driver that either works or doesn't? I like
working on this programming language like I'm doing my own codegen and like
claude is happy to pull out GDB and just like
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