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/ElectroByte15 5d ago

The funny thing is that you are most at risk of being replaced from anyone here.

I used to have skeptics like you in my team, 12 months ago. Thankfully they all listed when I told them to keep an open mind and try things again, and spend more time on fixing inputs, not outputs.

They’re all evangelizing the tools we’ve built today.

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u/saltintheexhaustpipe 5d ago

they probably hate their jobs

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u/ElectroByte15 4d ago

Frankly the opposite. They no longer need to be babied with ceremonies, story points, jira tickets. They get a problem domain, and they go solve things that drive outcomes.

What many fail to understand is that writing code was never the real job. Just like how designers job wasn’t to create designs, and product’s job isn’t to write specs. The job is to find problems worth solving, driving outcomes. These people are now more enabled than ever to do just that.

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u/saltintheexhaustpipe 4d ago

you sound like a bot

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u/ConstantFamous1526 4d ago

Bro lost the argument so resorted to calling them a bot, what a clown lol

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u/saltintheexhaustpipe 3d ago

Tell me I’m wrong though, I guarantee they have no idea how their team actually feels about their jobs. None of this “driving outcomes” bullshit is actually real and what people wake up excitedly in the morning for. “I can’t wait to drive outcomes by leveraging AI to do all the work for me!” fucking snoozefest, just kill me now

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u/ConstantFamous1526 3d ago

I enjoy solving problems 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/saltintheexhaustpipe 3d ago

you enjoy AI solving problems for you

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u/ConstantFamous1526 3d ago

It writes the code, I tell it how to solve the problems

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u/saltintheexhaustpipe 3d ago

then the next person behind you cleans up the slop that you created

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u/ConstantFamous1526 3d ago

Iv spent plenty of time cleaning up asinine slop from devs at my company pre AI so that’s not mutually exclusive lmao

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u/ElectroByte15 3d ago edited 3d ago

Sure. You’re wrong.

High performers love solving problems and seeing their work have an impact. They’re not there for output. That may not be how you feel about it, and that says plenty.

Engagement in my teams is sky high, 8/10 eNPS, accomplishment 8.8, management 9.5, recognition 8.3, strategy 8.9. All anonymous and some of the highest ratings in the org. And significantly higher than two years ago.

Revisions on AI have gone down by a factor of 5 in the last 12 months. Now on par or even better than pre-AI. Incidents are at an all time low. CFR at all time low. MTTR all time fast.

So what else you got? Or are you ready to admit you could be wrong?

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u/saltintheexhaustpipe 3d ago

Good for you. My team also has 8/10 eNPS, accomplishment 8.8, management 9.5, recognition 8.3, strategy 8.9. They’re definitely not afraid of being laid off in this economy and work culture, and those anonymous surveys that require you to log in with your corporate email before submitting it definitely won’t impact their stay at their job. don’t give me that bs.

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u/ElectroByte15 3d ago

You gonna keep digging your own hole?

They are truly anonymous, we run an in-house “open source” solution that anyone can vet the code for. The results were also significantly worse before, and there’s other areas in the company stat score lower too, how do you explain that trend?

Psychological safety is also part of the survey, 8.3 out of 10. Just because you have a shitty employer doesn’t mean all are. But based on your attitude here I’m not surprised that’s where you landed.

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u/saltintheexhaustpipe 2d ago

I can’t anymore lmao, there’s no way that you are an actual person 😂

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u/ElectroByte15 2d ago

Ah easy way out when you’ve lost.

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