Every week, another breathless headline declares software engineering dead. Another AI demo shows a chatbot building a full-stack app in 90 seconds. Another LinkedIn thought leader posts a funeral wreath emoji next to the words "traditional coding." And every week, I watch senior engineers at real companies quietly doing something that looks nothing like those demos. They're not typing code line by line. But they're not being replaced, either. They're doing something I've started calling plan-and-review software engineering . And honestly, it's the biggest change in how software gets built since the move from waterfall to agile. What Is Plan-and-Review Software Engineering? Plan-and-review software engineering is a workflow where engineers spend most of their time designing systems, writing specifications, orchestrating AI coding tools, and reviewing the output — rather than writing code by hand. The engineer becomes a director. The AI becomes the production crew. This isn't theoretical.…