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I Spoke to My Senior Google Manager About the Future of Software Engineering — And It Changed How I See AI

I Spoke to a Google Engineer About What AI Really Means for Software Engineers

8 min readOct 4, 2026

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Recently, after the launch of GPT-6 , there has been a lot of chaos and confusion in the market.

You have probably seen the headlines.

Coding is dead. Software engineers are becoming irrelevant. AGI is already here.

When you hear all of this repeatedly, it is easy to become confused. And for people who are relatively new to the industry, the uncertainty can be even greater.

Students spending three or four years pursuing degrees like BCA or B.Tech are naturally asking themselves some difficult questions.

Is coding really going to die?

Are software engineers going to become irrelevant?

Are we already in the AGI era?

Will companies continue hiring freshers?

Is a computer science degree still worth the time and money?

And perhaps the biggest question of all:

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Gaddam.Naveen
Gaddam.Naveen

Written by Gaddam.Naveen

"Java Developer | scalable solutions | Sharing insights on Spring Boot, microservices, and clean code."