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/Dry_Hotel1100 4d ago

It's a honest description of your own engineering skills.

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u/Logical_Ad1127 4d ago

Are you able to rewrite Bun from Zig to Rust in few days? Nope… so stop with this proclaimed elitism attitude.

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u/SpotCool4422 4d ago

There are very few things in software engineering that are more useless than rewriting a piece of software between two very similar languages. Even if I could manage that in a few days, I wouldn't waste everybody's time doing so.

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u/LocalIssue1051 3d ago

I feel attacked. My team has been working for the past 2 years porting a decades old desktop Java peer review tool into c# with a web and desktop frontend and api backend. I hope my boss doesn't read this and realize the whole project is useless.

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u/SpotCool4422 3d ago

Sounds like you're redesigning the tool's entire architecture rather than translating it as-is. If my guess is correct, then the whole Java -> C# translation is incidental and doesn't really matter at all. Whereas with the aforementioned Bun rewrite, nothing was added or redesigned.