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Who You Really Are: Software Engineering After the Code Writes Itself

Paperback · March 25, 2026 · by Sean Neal

It used to be that writing code was hard enough to prove you were valuable. The advent of AI is changing that. Who You Really Are is one engineer's attempt — after over twenty-five years in the field — to sit with that discomfort and think clearly in spite of it. What still matters when the tools change everything? What was always underneath the code? And what do engineers need to become now that the old proof is gone?

This is not a how-to guide. It is not a prediction. It is a book about judgment, taste, and the human work that no machine has learned to do, yet.

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