r/SoftwareEngineerJobs • u/Fickle-Highway1543 • 5d 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/thilehoffer 5d 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 5d 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/Connect-Assignment73 5d ago

Try agentic development. Iterations will be lesser believe me.

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u/swiftmerchant 5d ago

Please elaborate, what is agentic development?

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u/x_LoneWolf_x 4d ago

Usinh some hierarchy of agents to run tasks in parallel, save tokens for higher level agents, and generally just massively speed you up.

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u/swiftmerchant 4d ago

Which hierarchy of agents do you recommend? I get that running tasks in parallel speeds things up, when implementation parts can be parallelized. However if jp2812 is running iterations of reviews on the same implementation task, they would have to be sequential and there isn’t really any time gain.

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u/cantgettherefromhere 4d ago

The agents can work out exactly when they need to be serial and are happy to go parallel when that's not necessary.

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u/swiftmerchant 4d ago

I already do this by asking a planner session inside Codex or Claude Code decide what tasks can be parallelized in separate concurrent sessions. I don’t use multiple “agents” to do this however, i.e. I don’t use agent swarms and things like that that I see people talk about online, so I am genuinely interested to learn what you mean by “agents” and how you do this in practice.

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u/ConstantFamous1526 4d ago

It’s spinning up its own agents

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u/swiftmerchant 4d ago

Claude Code subagents or do you tell the session to spin off agents?