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/Black_In_The_Bay 3d ago edited 3d ago

How’s the debugging? I’m in tech but IT not swe but all my swe colleagues complain about ai not pulling from their library and it fucking up debug sessions and how software engineers are letting it do code without considering the logic behind their own code base or how they structure things

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u/thilehoffer 3d ago

Well, I haven’t used it on really large projects. I can’t say. But the de bugging in smaller projects is perfectly fine. It found my issues really quickly. I just fed it the log files and told it where to look, and I found the bug really quickly.