When Coding Becomes Cheap, Engineering Becomes Rare

Software Development in the AI Era By a Principal Software Engineer I did not start my career as a software developer. I started as an RF engineer, working on operators live data, networks, real-world constraints. From there, I moved into automation test engineering, writing frameworks and test case automation. That journey gradually pulled me into software development, and eventually into designing large-scale telecom, networking, edge and cloud systems. ...

December 25, 2025 · 12 min · Swamy D K V