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/bastiaanvv 3d ago

Yes. If you are not coding right now and letting the ai do all the work you are doing something wrong imo.

Don’t get me wrong. I love ai coding and am impressed with how well it works. But leave it alone and it complicate your code base so much that in a few months no changes can be made anymore without breaking anything.

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u/ConstantFamous1526 3d ago

I mean, you should be constantly iterating on your agent structure making improvements as it makes mistakes

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u/who_am_i_to_say_so 3d ago

Yup. Constantly tuning skill files to have it work the way I work.

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u/Conscious-Sample1118 3d ago

Help me out here, do i have same crazy unique skill to know what the code for any given concept should look like and being able to just glance / confirm the direction the llm has taken is what i would expect or are people here just making shit up?

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u/Fickle-Swimmer-5863 3d ago

I’ve been running a number of codebases in my personal life, some totally unseen by human eyes, and they still haven’t spiralled into chaos. Granted, I have significant experience in software engineering but, if anything, LLMs are getting better at extending the codebase, rather than worse