The work moved. The craft didn't. A weekly read for devs, tech leads, and anyone keeping up with where AI is taking software engineering.. Try This Week How to keep up The New Senior Engineer Chris Parsons — chrismdp.com Less reviewing, more training. If you're still tied to your IDE, you're working a year behind. The 2026 toolchain recommendation: install Claude Code or Codex CLI, not Copilot. The senior engineer's job has shifted from writing code or reviewing diffs to training the AI to write better code. The central point: the harness around the model matters as much as the model itself. Leverage lives in standing instructions in AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md and in skill files that teach the agent your conventions. How fast you can tell whether the output is right separates teams that ship from teams stuck . As Chris puts it: "Coding with AI is now the default. The question is whether you are doing it as a reviewer, a prompter, or a trainer. The trainer role compounds." Read more...…