r/SoftwareEngineering
174k members
r/SoftwareEngineering is a subreddit with 174k members. The most common kinds of discussions are solution requests and pain & anger, and the community frequently discusses bot, development, help, agents, and llm, and they frequently recommend/review ui framework, backend framework, and ergonomic keyboard.
Popular Themes in r/SoftwareEngineering
#1
Solution Requests
: "Is there a platform that curates detailed architectural blueprints for any project?"
4 posts
#2
Pain & Anger
: "Getting tired of the AI energy panic while everyone ignores the mountain of rotting legacy bloat we run every day"
3 posts
#3
Self-Promotion
: "I made a free crm for tennis businesses"
3 posts
#4
Opportunities
: "Our company product was redone in Kotlin"
2 posts
#5
Advice Requests
: "Help: Shipping a cybersecurity platform as a "POC" to banks and government clients, then refactoring later — reasonable strategy or disaster in the making?"
1 post
#6
Ideas
: "Using a Separate User for development"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/SoftwareEngineering
#1
Bot
: "Are people still building LLM powered Bots/workflows with Jev out?"
2 posts
#2
Development
: "Development With LLMs is so Fast"
2 posts
#3
Help
: "I need some Help"
2 posts
#4
Agents
: "Brig: A MicroVM sandbox for AI coding Agents on Mac and Linux"
2 posts
#5
Llm
: "Development With Llms is so Fast"
2 posts
#6
Architecture
: "Traceframe skill : to build interactive system Architecture diagram"
2 posts
#7
Ai
: "So if Ai is taking over the software engineering job market then why does EVERY defense company have tons of job posting for software engineers/programers ? Is this just the defense sector or am I missing something here?"
2 posts
#8
Worst
1 post
#9
Software Engineering
: "So if AI is taking over the Software Engineering job market then why does EVERY defense company have tons of job posting for software engineers/programers ? Is this just the defense sector or am I missing something here?"
1 post
#10
Job
: "So if AI is taking over the software engineering Job market then why does EVERY defense company have tons of Job posting for software engineers/programers ? Is this just the defense sector or am I missing something here?"
1 post
Products Discussed in r/SoftwareEngineering
Ui Framework
5 reviews
#1
WPF
4.0★ from 1 review
#2
ASP.NET
4.0★ from 1 review
#3
PySide
4.0★ from 1 review
Backend Framework
1 review
#1
Spring Boot
4.0★ from 1 review
Ergonomic Keyboard
1 review
Member Growth in r/SoftwareEngineering
Yearly
+19k members(12.0%)
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Last updated: October 5, 2026