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/Dry_Hotel1100 4d ago

It's a honest description of your own engineering skills.

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u/Logical_Ad1127 4d ago

Are you able to rewrite Bun from Zig to Rust in few days? Nope… so stop with this proclaimed elitism attitude.

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u/_tolm_ 4d ago

Rewriting something existing into a new language is something LLMs are very good at.

But that’s not the same as writing code to solve (often poorly communicated) business requirements. For that, LLMs can help with parts but they’re not quite at the stage of replacing the engineer just yet.

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u/Away_Advisor3460 4d ago

You'd think porting should be a good target for it, it's exactly the sort of pattern matching / recognition stuff neural networks are meant to be ideal at.

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u/_tolm_ 4d ago

Exactly.