A huge amount of frameworks and libraries and tooling that has completely polluted software engineering, especially in web, mobile and desktop development. We, as an industry, looked at the genuine complexity of building software and instead of sharpening our thinking, we bought someone else’s thinking off the shelf. And you unlock a feature that has nothing to do with engineering: you no longer need to hire a software engineer. Software Engineering Is BackIn my opinion Software engineering, the true one, is back again. If you keep accepting this trade off, you are not only losing the biggest opportunity we’ve seen in software engineering in decades.