Software Engineering Is Dead. Long Live Software Engineering
15:15 - 15:45, 21st of May (Thursday) 2026 / AI & Architecture
People say software engineering is dead. AI writes code, vibe coding ships features overnight, and the role of engineers seems to be shrinking into "prompting the machine."
This talk presents a practical view of how the discipline is evolving under AI pressure.
In the AI-native era, the bottleneck is no longer coding itself, but decision quality: architecture choices, constraints, trade-offs, code review standards, and the ability to keep delivery predictable under pressure.
We will discuss patterns from real work with engineering teams:
- where AI genuinely accelerates teams,
- where it silently creates technical debt,
- and how to introduce lightweight engineering standards that protect speed without killing momentum.
All of this is beyond the hype, focused on day-to-day delivery decisions.
The core message is simple; teams that use AI as an individual productivity hack create inconsistency and hidden debt. Teams that build shared AI workflows, standards, and review checkpoints create leverage.
The next chapter of software engineering is higher-leverage engineering. Fewer keystrokes, better systems, stronger decisions.
