Software Engineering

People who leave Big Tech are not stupid. They have simply spent too long using a rented mental map. Only after leaving the platform do they discover that the map has to be returned.

AI is becoming the story companies tell when they lay people off, but total demand for software engineering has not disappeared. It is spreading across the wider economy, driven by second-order demand unleashed as barriers fall.

Codex 5.3 xHigh pushed my workflow past a tipping point: writing code is no longer the scarce resource. The real leverage is design quality and engineering acceptance. This is the practical loop I use to ship reliable software with AI agents.