Lawal Alao, Fractional CTO & Product Leader

Reading "The End of Software Engineering" Against My 2026 Shipping Log

A June 2026 paper argues that software engineering as a discipline is ending, replaced by agentic systems that generate code at runtime. After shipping six AI products this year, here is what the paper gets right, what it underweights, and why the timeline it proposes assumes an evaluation infrastructure that almost no team has yet.

What I Tell My Developers When They Ask if AI Will Replace Them

The conversation I have, in the same phrasing, every time a developer on my team asks whether AI is going to take their job. The abstraction ladder, four operational signs of a developer moving up rather than staying flat, and the honest trade at the bottom of the shift.

Test Coverage Was Enough. Ownership Coverage Is What Matters Now.

Every AI-shipping team accumulates dark matter faster than they realize: code that runs in production but no single human in the company holds a mental model of. Here is the metric I propose to track it, the discipline I force on myself when I ship with Claude Code, and what happens at 3am in a service nobody remembers writing.