AI Agents Reshape Software Engineering into Agentic Era
Paper argues AI agents make code a temporary byproduct rather than a fixed carrier of logic.
Posts describe a paper by a Chinese researcher titled “The End of Software Engineering.” The work contrasts traditional software, where code permanently encodes human logic, with an agentic model in which the AI agent itself functions as the system. Code becomes something the agent generates, applies, and discards mid-operation. One reply states coding is solved while software engineering is not. Separate comments note that producing less code may reduce maintenance and bugs.
Chinese researchers published a paper with a devastating title: "The End of Software Engineering” it argues software engineering is finished. In traditional software, code is the carrier of pre-written human logic. In agentic software, the AI agent is the software. Code is…
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AI Agents Reshape Software Engineering into Agentic Era
Paper argues AI agents make code a temporary byproduct rather than a fixed carrier of logic.
Posts describe a paper by a Chinese researcher titled “The End of Software Engineering.” The work contrasts traditional software, where code permanently encodes human logic, with an agentic model in which the AI agent itself functions as the system. Code becomes something the agent generates, applies, and discards mid-operation. One reply states coding is solved while software engineering is not. Separate comments note that producing less code may reduce maintenance and bugs.
Chinese researchers published a paper with a devastating title: "The End of Software Engineering” it argues software engineering is finished. In traditional software, code is the carrier of pre-written human logic. In agentic software, the AI agent is the software. Code is…