1. On Being an Engineer in 2026

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    We all feel it. Every other week, we lose or delegate another part of our work to agents. It started with giving up on writing code. Then it expanded to pretty much any writing - Slack messages, documents, emails. Since around Opus 4.6, debugging, once an art and something that made us proud, became clicking on the recommended option in Cursor. And with better harnesses, even architecture and high-level thinking started moving to agents.

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