Reddit Reacts is back. I'm taking the most controversial takes on software engineering from Reddit and giving you my unfiltered perspective on what's happening, from juniors leveraging AI tools, to the culling of engineers who refuse to adapt, to whether you should take a gap year after a layoff. In this episode, we cover: - How to become technically "cracked" and what really separates great engineers - Why juniors learning with AI have an edge over 20-year veterans - The future of writing code by hand (and why fulfillment is shifting) - Vibe coding, security holes, and what happens after 6 months - The brutal reality of layoffs, gap years, and AI-driven hiring If you're an engineer trying to figure out where this industry is going and how to stay competitive, this one is for you. Mentioned in the episode: ADP List (adplist.org) - free mentorship from senior engineers Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:54 - How to Become Technically Cracked in 2026 00:05:35 - Will Juniors Who Only Code with AI Get Stuck? 00:09:26 - Will Senior Engineers Stop Writing Code By Hand? 00:11:11 - I Vibe Coded for 6 Months and It's a Disaster 00:15:04 - Why Leaders Demand Screen Sharing on Incident Calls 00:17:34 - "I Don't Do Anything and Still Get Promoted" 00:20:33 - Have the Best Engineers Stopped Applying? 00:25:39 - The Future of Software Engineering in the AI Era 00:32:15 - Are Most Programmers Actually Bad? 00:34:58 - Should You Take a Gap Year After a Layoff? #softwareengineering #aicoding #techcareers Connect with Patrick Akil: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-akil https://twitter.com/PatrickAkil_
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All you said now depends on how much will it cost to run those agents. Will see in the near future.
Adapt to what? Prompting an LLM? Adapting to a new IDE is harder. What joke click bait statement.
This title is horribly misleading. I'm 30 min in and have no clue how to get crack
It's not really a question of adaptability === safe. It's a question of the alligator eating you last. Is that really a win? What might that buy you, 6 months to a year? SWE is cooked if the current trajectory holds. Personally, I've already made a career change once, and now I'm about to change back into something that leverages both in some corporeal requirement that is a much better hedge against obsoletion.
May : its over June : is it over? July: i think i am over it Aug: here is my garden
Another this and that video...have you seeing AI generated code?...have you build production ready code?...it's a nightmare even interns and junior Engineer don't even know how to explain what they doing...it's chaos.
First commet!
17:59 classic Kobol programmer
The only thing that separates and good engineer from a bad one from companies perspective is "To Conform" if they see in you somebody hard to control, to manipulate , to scare, to dominate then you are a bad engineer even if you are the best one.
clickbait title, from a morally bankrupt content creator
AI generated content
Hey Patrick, really good content. It’s nice to see a balanced perspective on software engineering without the all or nothing narrative that’s going around. Thank you, hope to see more great content in the future
Can you please tell the group or people whom i can contact to get insights ? So i can interact with them
I've been a software engineer for 35 years since 1992. Started programming when I was 13 in 1983. I've seen paradigm shifts come and I've seen senior level engineers not be able to make the shift - from old school mainframe to client server, from client-server to web development, and now from hand coding to AI agentic engineering. it gets harder and harder to make the change the older you get and the more cynical you get naturally that the new ways are worse (not untrue). you gotta stay nimble and open to constant change in this industry.
Damnn you are a wizard or you and I are! What I have been noticing is people over 45 in the industry despise AI, they HATE it with a passion. But not all seems just 85% of them do. Maybe they pissed why do the newbies have it so good, but I differ, competition will be more fiercer now than ever before.
This title is horribly misleading. I'm 2 min in and have no clue how to get cracked.