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While Everyone Debates Whether AI Will Replace Engineers, the Hardest Engineering Problems in History Just Quietly Appeared.
The engineers who figure out what comes next are not the ones worrying about their jobs. They are the ones already working on problems most of the industry does not know exist yet.
There is a conversation happening loudly across the engineering industry right now about whether AI will replace software engineers.
And there is a separate conversation happening quietly, in the corners of distributed systems teams and security research groups and infrastructure companies, about a set of problems that are genuinely unsolved, genuinely consequential, and genuinely require the deepest kind of software engineering expertise to crack.
The loud conversation gets the attention. The quiet one is where the actual work is.
Here is what that work looks like.
What multiagent systems are creating
The early version of AI in engineering was relatively contained. A model that answered questions. An assistant that wrote code suggestions. A tool that sat alongside a developer and handled…
