शैडोइंग अभ्यास: The hottest programming skill in 2026 - वीडियो के साथ अंग्रेजी बोलना सीखें

Systems thinking.

That's it.

You can end the video right now.

Every programming era had its own hot skill,

whether you were writing Java in the 90s,

PHP in the 2000s, Ruby in 2010,

and in 2026, aside from token maxing, it's systems thinking.

But what exactly is systems thinking?

It's understanding how each part of a system interacts over time.

Think of it like this.

You work at the Krusty Krab,

you can make a banger Krabby Patty,

but that's only one feature of the Krusty Krab.

How do they scale to a thousand Krabby Patties per hour.

What happens when the fryer breaks?

Or worse, Patrick is your waiter.

Systems thinking has its roots in biology,

and it can be applied to many different fields.

Supply chain management, market dynamics,

traffic, and of course, software engineering.

Nowadays, anytime we hear systems and programming,

we immediately think of system design interview questions.

But that's only a part of it.

Systems thinking and software engineering have an old relationship,

and it's only getting more prominent as time passes.

And I have some charts to back it A16Z published this graph showing software jobs are going up.

I personally hate these graphs.

Not because I'm Mr. Dario,

I was meant to replace you 24 months ago, agentic pilled.

But I hate seeing these graphs because it doesn't clarify what kind of software jobs are going up.

Do you really think the demand for Pascal developers is going up?

Really, bro?

Thankfully, there's always a programmer with some spare time and a banger blog that did the research for me.

This graph shows off the number of job postings by each job title.

Look at the top three.

They all develop carpal tunnel, but also systems.

Look at machine learning engineers.

They use tools like PyTorch, Kafka, Kubernetes.

They use these tools to build stuff like fraud detection algorithms,

which can analyze millions of transactions so your credit card isn't used in Belarus to buy an iPhone.

The fraud detection algorithm is a system.

Similarly, data engineers and backend engineers,

when they're not gluing APIs together, they're building systems.

The ability to think in systems is so hot right now.

Anthropic has a section on their careers page just for infrastructure software engineers.

Even the latest jobs coming out of the GPT wrapper factories.

They're about making the use of LLMs more efficient, which is a system.

Hopefully I've sold you on the importance of systems thinking,

so now you can go learn about it.

Learning systems is harder than anything else in programming,

since you can't just replicate the scale of millions of users.

Except, there is one way.

Playing Factorio.

I'm not even kidding.

Factorio is a game where you learn how to build systems.

For those that are unaware,

the premise of the game is that you crash land on a planet,

you need to build a rocket to escape.

To build that rocket, you need to get resources.

To get those resources, you need to build systems and get really good at building them.

Factorio is the most underrated way to learn about large-scale systems and actually get some experience,

because it teaches you about impact,

bottlenecks, and how to continuously improve a large-scale system.

There's this amazing video by Tony Zhu that goes over the relationship between Factorio and software engineering.

Another unconventional way of learning about systems thinking is by watching Kevin Fang and reading the Cloudflare outage postmortems.

If you want a more conventional method,

you could always read this excellent book called Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows.

Now if you're absolutely insistent on building a project,

you can look up public repositories of massive datasets and use that to stress test your project,

whether it's by benchmarking how quickly you read and write to the database,

or seeing if your front-end code can actually handle that much data.

Fundamentally, systems have always been a part of software engineering,

and it is the strongest skill you can learn right now,

whether you're into back-end, front-end, or even game dev.

Understanding how something as granular as your code fits into the bigger picture will always be valuable.

And hey, at least you have an excuse to get good at Factorio now.

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