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Will Software Engineering Survive The Death Of Coding? | Andrey Breslav In The Engineering Room Ep. 47

September 27, 2026 · 1 h 13 min

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AI assistants and large language models automate boilerplate implementation, shifting the software engineer's primary task from typing code to clearly specifying problems and verifying outcomes. Rather than eliminating engineering, modern tooling elevates it: developers must organize complexity, define modular boundaries, and enforce deterministic verification pipelines to avoid the trap of "spaghetti prompts."

Andrey Breslav is a distinguished language designer, educator, and entrepreneur who spent a decade leading the design of the Kotlin programming language at JetBrains. Having authored a significant portion of the Kotlin compiler and served as president of the Kotlin Foundation, he also sat on the Java Community Process expert group for Project Lambda. Today, he is the founder and CEO of CodeSpeak, a platform rethinking developer tooling to transform conversational intent into structured, verifiable functional requirements.

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