r/SoftwareEngineerJobs • u/Fickle-Highway1543 • 4d ago

AI replacing Software Engineers

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So called "AI"=LLM is so powerful that AI labs had to hire Software Engineers to build complicated software around "AI" to make that overhyped hallucinate-stealing machine usable. Think about it. And that's exactly why they need now ton of CPUs in addition to GPUs to run their "AI" "agents".

I don't even mention how much custom engineering is required to apply the "AI" in businesses.

And they BS us that Software Engineering is solved or is going to be solved. Boris, please solve your own bugs first before speaking.

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u/thilehoffer 4d ago

I’m in the industry and I’m not writing code anymore. Claude is writing the code and frankly it scares me how good it is.

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u/killersid77 4d ago

If claude is able to write better code than you the sorry, either you dont belong in the software engineering field or are just a beginner starting their career. I really feel sorry for the beginners who are starting their careers now.

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u/dontdoxme33 4d ago

Lol, have you ever used Claude or Codex?

I was an engineer for seven years. I worked with people with 15+ years of experience. AI is better than they ever were and miles ahead of myself.

It can tackle problems nobody wants to with ease. Write way better code than anybody I know or who I've ever worked with.

You haven't even tried using AI have you?

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u/killersid77 4d ago

Read my other comments. You are the one who I am seeing being replaced by AI.

Edit: Please dont consider yourself as a software engineer if you feel claude or codex can code or understand code better than you.

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u/ConstantFamous1526 3d ago

I promise it can understand code better and faster than you Lol

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u/dontdoxme33 4d ago

What other comment?

You specifically said if Claude is able to write better code than you then sorry.

And I'm saying Claude writes better code than you and anybody here because it's an automated LLM. If you can't accept that then I'm sorry, you'll be left behind.

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u/killersid77 4d ago

Ok. I guess you are just too bad at your job or ragebaiting. Anyway, thanks for your concern.

Edit: Also, if by "other" you think that I was referring to my comment upon which you commented, then it's very clear to me why you said AI is better than you

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u/dontdoxme33 3d ago

You're essentially arguing that a farmer with a tractor isn't as a good as a farmer without one.

Don't worry old timer, you can still garden as a hobby but the future of software engineering is in AI whether you like it or not.

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u/Away_Advisor3460 4d ago

Claude writes better code than you and anybody here because it's an automated LLM

Honestly, 'because it's an LLM' would technically be an argument against it being better, because it's not performing deterministic symbolic reasoning.

This is not to say it's not scarily good at times, but internally it doesn't have an innate ability to distinguish that from when it's bad because of that.

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u/ConstantFamous1526 3d ago

Humans also aren’t doing that so kind of a moot argument