> Software engineering is what happens to programming when you add time and other people.

The book Software Engineering at Google goes into this (all factors of programming at scale / over time), worth a read.

It's available online for free: https://abseil.io/resources/swe-book

And, yep, it's worth a read.

An amazing distillation of the craft.

Then a new term is warranted for what happens to programming when we add prompts & agents.

don't we already have the words slop and vibecode