main skill in software engineering in 2026 is knowing what to ask Claude, not knowing how to code. and I can’t decide if that’s depressing or just the next abstraction layer.

Been writing code professionally for 8+ years. I’m now mass spending time describing features in plain english than writing actual code. And the outputs are getting scary close to what I’d write myself. submitted by /u/Downtown-Art2865 [link] [comments]