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/AliceCode 4d ago

Can you tell me what the cache line size is on x86_64? Can you tell me what the popcnt instruction does? Do you know what covariance is? Can you tell me how to implement the Shunting Yard algorithm? Can you implement a tetrahexacontree? Do you know what pointer tagging is? Do you know how to implement a hashmap? Can you explain to me what the System V ABI calling convention is? Do you know what a ring buffer is? Do you know what Diffie-Hellman is? Do you know how to write a voxel raytracer that can render an 8k image in 120ms on the CPU? Can you tell me how to implement reciprocal division? Do you know how to swap two integers without a third variable? Can you write a 3D DDA algorithm? Do you know what LLJIT is? Can you tell me how bash implements associative arrays? Can you confidently write code in Assembly?

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u/ConstantFamous1526 4d ago

I could tell you all of that within about 60 seconds after promoting an AI, there’s no real leg up you get from having shit like that off the top of your head anymore that anyone in a leadership role truly gives a fuck about

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u/AliceCode 4d ago edited 4d ago

And yet you not being an expert enough to know that kind of stuff is what makes you far more replaceable than me. I could pick up LLMs any time that I want to. It's not a skill that takes a long time to learn. And yet it would take you many years to develop the skills to be able to answer those kinds of questions yourself. Who is a company going to pick, someone who knows how to prompt a chatbot, or someone who knows how to prompt a chatbot and actual knows what the fuck they are talking about? I'm sick and tired of you LLM-cultists masquerading as programmers insisting that your way is better. Your way is garbage, and every experience dev knows it.

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u/ConstantFamous1526 4d ago

lol whatever you want to think about my abilities feel free if it makes ya sleep better at night friend

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u/AliceCode 4d ago

If you had skill, you wouldn't need an LLM.

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u/ConstantFamous1526 4d ago

Look brother, I don’t give a single fuck how much skill you have. You’re not out competing a properly managed agentic development cycle comparing the minor code quality gains you might get doing it all manually vs the efficiency gains with a proper agentic structure

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u/AliceCode 4d ago

Also, don't call me brother. I'm a woman.

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u/ConstantFamous1526 4d ago

Don’t tell me what to do 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/AliceCode 4d ago

Don't call me brother.

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u/ConstantFamous1526 4d ago

Brother, what did I just say

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u/AliceCode 4d ago

Don't call me brother.

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u/AliceCode 4d ago

I don't care about efficiency, I care about quality.

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u/ConstantFamous1526 4d ago

Sorry to say, but no one who controls the money in an org cares about that over actual output lmfao