software engineering

6 statements across 6 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Oct 27, 2021 by Zhamak Dehghani · across every show →

Everything said about software engineering, oldest first

Oct 27, 2021 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Dehghani: Data engineering and data science will become basic engineering skills
“I think one of the big changes would be, we'll move from this specialized and specialization to generalization. So some of the things that we consider specialization today, like data engineering, a large portion of what we call data science becomes basic engin…”
Zhamak Dehghani Oct 27, 2021 ▶ 24:15 Fireside Chat: Zhamak Dehghani (Founder, Data Mesh) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Jun 28, 2022 negative
Opinion
Handy: Data profession is two decades behind software engineering
“And as a profession, like data is generally Probably two decades behind software engineering in terms of, like, the productivity of practitioners and the level of abstraction and everything.”
Tristan Handy Jun 28, 2022 ▶ 13:47 The Next Layer of the Modern Data Stack | dbt's Tristan Handy
Feb 22, 2024
Insight
Tristan Handy: Building a production data system is building a software system
“One of the core beliefs about the, that we have about the profession is that data and software are not that different. And when you're building a production data system, you're building a production software system, which means that we should be taking lessons…”
Tristan Handy Feb 22, 2024 ▶ 28:04 Future of The Modern Analytics Stack | Tristan Handy, CEO of dbt
Feb 6, 2025 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Masad: Total software engineer headcount will stay roughly constant
“So I think I think the population of software engineering will probably be constant and not grow all that much.”
Amjad Masad Feb 6, 2025 ▶ 1:08:03 The AI Coding Agent Revolution, The Future of Software, Techno-Optimism | Amjad Masad, CEO, Replit
Jun 20, 2025 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Software engineering will evolve into orchestrating AI agents for mundane tasks
“I don't think software engineering goes away. I think software engineering changes to actually a much more fun job. Where a lot of the mundane kind of plumbing of software engineering is handled for you, and you're able to orchestrate software with these agent…”
Brendan Humphreys Jun 20, 2025 ▶ 54:00 Inside a $3B ARR Rocketship — Canva CTO Brendan Humphreys on Deploying AI at Scale
Aug 5, 2026 neutral
Opinion
Trojanowski: Most engineering historically was execution-oriented, not systems thinking
“Now, I think the majority of engineering historically has not been really systems thinking based. You know, it's been a little bit more execution oriented, but if you think about like the hardest engineering, like, Hey, I'm trying to design like what this is g…”
Mitch Trojanowski Aug 5, 2026 ▶ 1:07:36 How to Build Autonomous, Long-Horizon AI Agents | Basis
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