Software engineering is dead, you know. Mass layoffs at Google, Meta, Amazon, AI shipping PRs faster than your senior dev ever could. So which is it: over, or just different?

Kasia Dutch broke into tech through a bootcamp in 2021, back when people were already calling that route impossible. Now she's a software engineer at Starling Bank, mentoring people from nontraditional backgrounds into jobs the old playbook insists shouldn't exist anymore.

Entry-level roles took the hit first, sure. But the people still getting hired aren't necessarily the best coders in the room. They're the ones who can tell you why the code matters: the user it helps, the process it unclogs, and the money it saves. Coding is just the baseline now.