Interest, Taste and Expertise: Growing in post-AI Software Engineering (or anything I guess)

There’s been a million thinkpieces about ‘AI took our entry level jobs, so where will tomorrow’s Seniors come from’, so I don’t want to add to them; just a short braindump from conversations I’ve been having with peers, superiors, students and teachers over the past few weeks. You can think of this as a spiritual successor to my ‘Being a DORC’ blog earlier in the year. But, it all comes down to a simple and unoriginal thought; to anti-phrase Yoda ...

10 October 2026 · Andrew Bolster