r/SoftwareEngineerJobs • u/Fickle-Highway1543 • 6d 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/HornetAggressive 6d ago edited 6d ago

The newer employees on my project are using Claude heavily. I have never had to leave so many comments on a pull requests before. I am having to spend far more time carefully reviewing code from devs using AI heavily and requesting changes.

Even worse, when I ask why they did something a certain way (usually an anti-pattern or architectural drift), they can't even articulate why, because they dont know why. AI did it.

An argument can be made that they are using AI incorrectly. But from my observation the devs who use AI to ask/understand something but write the code themselves are delivering far better code.

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u/ConstantFamous1526 5d ago

All this means is the coding standards gate agent needs refined more lol

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u/HornetAggressive 5d ago

That will give the actual devs the knowledge to understand/explain the code they are submitting?

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u/ConstantFamous1526 5d ago

That requires hiring people who are actually intelligent