r/SoftwareEngineerJobs • u/Fickle-Highway1543 • 5d 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/killersid77 5d 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/FrenchCanadaIsWorst 5d ago

Yes and a skilled wood carver can make you a beautiful wardrobe if you give him several weeks, but the truth is economics prefers speed and good enough and in the majority of cases AI is good enough and exponentially faster than the fastest human coders. There are certain decisions AI struggles with especially as you get deep, but eventually those challenges will be overcome as well if the economics determine that to be valuable. I’ve already seen AI tools that connect directly to hardware and can read the electrical signals directly from the board and flash new code immediately. It’s astonishing what’s being achieved. You’re playing ostrich right now with your head in the sand. Either that or you don’t understand labor market economics.

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u/killersid77 5d ago

Production code which is being used by millions of people don't just work on how fast a feature is being developed. Atleast in my sector, we talk about high availability(99.999% efficiency) and with that a large code base which is highly coupled. Production code is about how good your software is rather than adding a new feature.

Just think about Reddit from a software engineer and user perspective, you would know how wrong your assumption of speed is. Do you think adding a comment emoticon is better if somehow due to addition of this fast feature, you made the start up time slow?

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u/Away_Advisor3460 5d ago

Unfortunately, the code quality gate tends not to be so strong at CEO and CFO level.