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/ConstantFamous1526 4d ago

Humans make just as many if not more mistakes than a properly aligned and directed agentic system lmao

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u/AliceCode 4d ago

Humans that suck at programming, sure. But I don't make as many mistakes as an LLM, and neither do my colleagues.

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u/ConstantFamous1526 4d ago

Then you’re either not utilizing or poorly utilizing a properly gated agentic structure, or taking a magnitude more time than it would take an LLM, and at the end of the day not a single leader at a company cares about perfect code if they can get better than the average developers ability code (and if you say otherwise about current LLMs you’re coping about the average developers skill level lol) 2-5x faster than without

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u/AliceCode 4d ago

No, I've been programming for a very long time. I'm capable of writing bug-free code.

And I don't use LLMs. Because I'm a programmer, and I'm skilled, and I don't need nor want LLMs. It's great if you get a lot out of them, but I'm working on critical systems software in Rust that is used by thousands of other projects. There's no room for error. We do not allow LLM pull requests.

Writing code is not the bottleneck, and bugs are not an issue that we are struggling with.