Chinese researchers just published a paper with a brutal title: "The End of Software Engineering." their argument: writing code is finished as a skill a human brain holds only so much state and so many dependencies before it stalls an agent has no such ceiling, and its capacity climbs with the compute you hand it so the person stops being the one typing the code you turn into the intent architect - you set the goal, direct the agents, and audit what comes back which quietly changes what you get paid for: specifying the problem, designing the verification, catching the failure the agent is most confident about code turns disposable, judgment turns into the job the person who can prove the output is correct ends up worth more than the person who produced it that's why i wrote the guide below on building your own agent system from scratch the paper it's based on is down there too