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1. tolugenius · 1790091450 · focus · HN ↗

   > About 20 Markdown files described browser use, connectors, payments, credentials, data handling, generated files, voice, goals, and scheduling.

   This the state of software engineering in 2026.

   Edit: clarified engineering to software engineering, which is more correct

   1. __natty__ · 1790091610 · focus · HN ↗

      Software engineering - other fields of engineering are slightly less pathological

      1. paul7986 · 1790093736 · focus · HN ↗

         After 17 years as a creative technologist, I’m studying to be a nurse. If you’re a web designer or developer who’s tried Muse and still sees a long-term career, I don’t get it. As tools like ChatGPT and Muse reduce the need to browse the web (Muse even shows you it's browsing the web for you), what will we be designing/developing? Muse already lets anyone create, publish, and host a website for free with no technical skills - just ask it and boom zero skill or effort to create a site. You may think I want my site to look good yet lol not many are going to see it. Now if Meta adds domain registration, your entire online presence could be live in minutes and to update content on your personal or business site just use Muse to do so.

         Overall I think the web will just be the storage for our thoughts, businesses/transactions and etc for AI to access. Yet our thoughts/content that AI uses to keep itself relevant we need to be paid for.

         1. elvis10ten · 1790105547 · focus · HN ↗

            Even in the best case scenario, normies wouldn’t want to build everything themselves.

            Aside: When did you start studying for nursing? And have you written about your experience so far?

            1. paul7986 · 1790110943 · focus · HN ↗

               What would they be building .. just tell Ai create and publish a website for my personal thoughts, solo business, mid-size business, etc and call it something like name124.com. Then boom it's done and live on the internet for them to feed content to it via a personal agent like Muse. If humans are getting paid to publish their thoughts/content on the web for Ai to stay relevant and it's super easy Im bet millions would love to be feeding Ai.

               Thank you it's on-going and going well. Ai (chatGPT plus) is helping me learn as I feed it my class notes and notes in general. I then have it create multiple choice quizzes I take via voice while driving or when not driving clicking/choosing the answer. I will write more once I further progress as I started school in mid August.

               1. elvis10ten · 1790112066 · focus · HN ↗

                  Good luck!
      2. ezst · 1790094520 · focus · HN ↗

         My side of the Engineering discipline is about designing and building plants (energy, pharmaceutical, petrochemical, ...), here standards are written from the blood of the killed or injured, engineers are very aware of it all, and yet, you should see how our C-suite get hyped by the LLM fad, and distributes promotions for whoever is the latest to find new ways to cut new corners or introduce unwarranted randomness in previously well established processes. It's awkward, to say the least.
      3. amelius · 1790095772 · focus · HN ↗

         Only because those fields are not having their alchemy moment now.
      4. atemerev · 1790098476 · focus · HN ↗

         I had some exposure to architecture and structural engineering. I am so very sorry to disappoint you, but strictness there is much overhyped.

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