> The cost of creating software might go down to zero with AI

Keep hearing this, but I think people focus too much on only the first part of software engineering: the producing part. But one also needs to make sure that produced software works as intended… and here engineers (as of October 2026) are as much as needed as pre AI times, if not more (one could argue that more skilled engineers are needed to review the work of decent LLMs spitting decent software but with subtle bugs)