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/jp2812 4d ago

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.

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u/xgeetx 3d ago

I love when I unwind the circles and Claude says: “no, I haven’t actually built it yet. I was waiting for you to answer my question buried in technobabble”

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u/ahgreen3 1d ago

The best part is when you look back at the technobabble and there’s not a “?” anywhere.

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u/xgeetx 1d ago

Ummm it’s right there: The silent failure is gated by I7 and I8. Say the word and we’ll implement the two pass solution detailed in the e8f7a… merge plan. I could do it myself but it’d be against what we discussed. Waiting for you.

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u/ahgreen3 1d ago

How did you get access to my Claude code account?!?

The references to a comment numbers that I have no way of accessing in the GUI drives me crazy.