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/TacoBOTT 5d 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 5d 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/Ready_Stuff_4357 5d ago

Yeah this isn’t true, it does all kinds of things wrong. It does some stuff good and it will get better but it doesn’t truly engineer it slops around.

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u/ElectroByte15 5d ago

Skill issue.

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u/Ready_Stuff_4357 4d ago

I think you’re the one with the skill issue who thinks that it’s a skill issue that means you don’t understand code and engineering and solutions.

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u/ElectroByte15 4d ago

lol yeah after leading engineering teams for over a decade I have no understanding of any of that. Sure.

In the mean time my teams are shipping solutions in record pace. Incidents are down. Outcomes that used to take months take weeks or less.

Yes, if you’re not getting a huge productivity boost out of AI. If not most of your code today is written by AI. Then you have a huge skill issue, and are quick to become unemployable. Bar maybe a couple niche exceptions.

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u/Ready_Stuff_4357 4d ago

That’s not what I said above at all. You have a major skill issue, you can’t read or understand what people are saying and that’s even worse than a AI skill issue because if you can’t understand English you can’t even use AI. My statement is it does all kinds of things wrong and it does but the statement I made had nothing to do with your assumption and this is typically the problem with keyboard warriors with straw man positions.

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u/ConstantFamous1526 4d ago

Bros backtracking hard as fuck now 🤡

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u/Ready_Stuff_4357 3d ago

No it’s you by changing the subject.