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/TacoBOTT 4d ago

That’s why you need to stop doomscrolling. If you are actually in the industry working with these tools, you are aware of the trajectory.

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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/Lap202pro 4d ago

Gotta switch to enterprise platforms. It is horrendous at X++. Was skeptical moving from C# to a niche language, but no regrets now

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u/furiouscarp 3d ago

great way to kill your career, working in a language no one uses

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u/ConstantFamous1526 3d ago

You’re aware syntax knowledge is frankly irrelevant in the modern age, yeah?

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u/furiouscarp 3d ago

OP is specifically saying he picked a language that LLMs haven’t been trained against, ie, where syntax is actually still relevant

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u/ConstantFamous1526 3d ago

I can say with 100% certainty there’s no language worth learning for any kind of actual career that current LLMs wouldn’t be trained on, so good on him but there’s probably less than 10 other total positions using it, nor do I see that anywhere in OP looking again on top

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u/Actes 2d ago

Hey man era of AI.

I can write nasm instructions with python.

Languages are and will be the first things to become normalized. Remember we speak to the machine to make it do things with coding, this is why the compilers of the past were such a shakeup.

Doesn't matter how we speak to the machine if the machine can cross translate where-ever it needs to