The hardest part of a senior software engineer's job isn't writing code. It is stopping your manager from passing off a Figma mockup as a product that's almost finished. But in the era of overly polite software development AI tools, used directly by the managers, whose job is it now to stop them?

You are a developer, and your team lead sucks at their job. If only you were a team lead, you would have done way better. Rejoice! For the time has come for you to prove yourself!...

Ever since Sonnet 3.7 came out, I have no doubt that the software engineer job (and thus, the job market) will change. I sincerely believe that in two years...