Should You Still Become a Software Engineer in 2026

If your kid or your closest friend came to you tomorrow and said, "I want to switch into software engineering as a career", what would you actually tell them? Our guests answer that question.

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https://fortune.com/2026/05/26/uber-coo-ai-spending-tokens-claude-code/

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/29/satya-nadella-says-as-much-as-30percent-of-microsoft-code-is-written-by-ai.html

https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2026/03/20/our-commitment-to-windows-quality/

https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/aws-service-outage-ai-bot-kiro

https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/state-of-the-job-market-2026

https://www.businessinsider.com/jensen-huang-500k-engineers-250k-ai-tokens-nvidia-compute-2026-3

https://x.com/steipete/status/2055346265869721905/photo/1

https://youtu.be/FQpZdCKgc6w

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