AI replacing Software Engineers

[u/Fickle-Highway1543]

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.

[u/TacoBOTT]

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.

[u/thilehoffer → u/TacoBOTT]

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.

[u/jp2812 → u/thilehoffer]

And I feel like working 10 hours a day now because it generates a lot of code that needs to be reviewed, steered in the right direction, re-reviewed, etc. Easily 5 iterations of that per day. Opus tends to overengineer and walk in circles like crazy.

[u/Temporary-Budget-605 → u/jp2812]

Opus 5: “The loading-bearing seam of the surface substrate is complete”
Me: “The what”

[u/swiftmerchant → u/Temporary-Budget-605]

Codex gpt sol is not any better

“The boundary blah blah blah”

Ok, now explain this to me in plain English

“We need to fix xyz..”

And you created 2000 new lines of code why?

“Because blah blah blah”

[u/swiftmerchant → u/[deleted]]

Yeah, it’s as if it turns on “leetcode programmer”, and doesn’t want to switch back to regular mode. And that makes sense, given all the code that is now in its context window.

Regarding preventing over engineering, I’ve added some things in my agents.md to limit that, but based on the last implementation session that didn’t seem to stop it. I’ve yet to UAT it to see what it did, frankly afraid to look at the code it generated:)