The End of Software Engineering chinese researchers published a paper titled "the end of software engineering." the argument: in agentic software, the agent is the software. code becomes ephemeral — generated, run, discarded. "what persists is the agent's capability, not its intermediate artifacts." take it seriously for a second. if the code is disposable, what's the durable asset? → the spec — the precise description of what you want, versioned → the memory — what the system learned about your domain, so it stops re-deriving it → the eval suite — how you know a new generation didn't quietly break something that's what you maintain now. the code is just the current print of it. #AI #AIagents