# How Coding Agents Are Shifting the Focus of Software Engineering

DevFeed: [How Coding Agents Are Shifting the Focus of Software Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/what-is-the-future-of-software-engineering-when-nobody-needs-to-write-code-38699.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://newsletter.techworld-with-milan.com/p/what-is-the-future-of-software-engineering-d52>)

Author: Dr Milan Milanović

Published: 2026-09-03T15:00:51Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Tech World With Milan Newsletter](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/tech-world-with-milan-newsletter.md>)

Topics: [Software Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software-engineering.md>), [AI-assisted coding](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-assisted-coding.md>), [future of software](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/future-of-software.md>), [AI Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-development.md>)

Tags: [agent](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agent.md>), [architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architecture.md>), [coding-agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/coding-agents.md>), [future-of-software](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/future-of-software.md>), [guardrails](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/guardrails.md>), [junior-developer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/junior-developer.md>), [software-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software-engineering.md>)

## AI overview

This commentary argues that coding agents are making code generation, testing, refactoring, and bug investigation cheaper and faster. As a result, software engineering increasingly emphasizes judgment, specification, verification, architecture, ownership, team scope, and managing technical debt.

## Source excerpt

Since the beginning of writing software, it has been a hard thing to do.