Software Engineering on Greg Herlein

The End of the Glorified Babysitter

Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:01 -0800

There’s a reckoning coming for a specific type of software engineering manager. Not the good ones. The ones who turned themselves into human Jira routers. The ones whose primary skill is translating documents into tickets and running standups. Those jobs? Gone. Faster than you think.

Get Stuff Done

Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:01 -0100

Look, I’m going to be direct here. If you are not using AI agentic coding methods right now - today - you are going too slow. Not “a little behind.” Not “maybe missing something.” Too damn slow.

Agentic Coding is About to Fracture Open Source

Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:01 -0800

Open source is about to get a lot messier. Not because the code is getting worse – because AI agents just changed the economics of “fork it and fix it yourself.”

What Would Grace Say?

Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:01 -0800

Grace Hopper built the first compiler in 1952. They said “you can’t make them understand English-like instructions.” She had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. Sound familiar? Grace had some thoughts about this kind of thinking. She had a lot of thoughts, actually.

Coding is Solved (And That's Fine)

Sun, 14 Dec 2025 00:00:01 -0800

“We are nearly at coder-equivalency for economically useful coding. A sufficiently experienced software engineer can now write >90% of production-ready code purely through prompting.” Yes, exactly.

Guest Appearance: Women in STEM Podcast

Thu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:01 -0700

I had a lot of fun being interviewed by Aimee Vincent-Bunn who hosts the fabulous Women in STEM podcast.

Guest Appearance: Software Synergy Podcast

Fri, 05 Apr 2024 00:00:01 -0700

I had a lot of fun being interviewed by James Holder for the Software Synergy Podcast. You can listen on Spotify or Apple.

September Update

Sat, 24 Sep 2022 00:00:01 -0700

Three months since I posted, so here’s some random thoughts and updates.

BrightSign!

Mon, 20 Jun 2022 00:00:01 -0700

What’s old is new again: I’ve joined BrightSign as their Head of Software Engineering!