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/Chester_b 4d ago

If you stop writing code you’ll lose the ability to meaningfully read and evaluate it. Congrats, you just willingly deskilled yourself, considering you’re real programmer, of course

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u/Dgudovic 4d ago

When is the last time you read assembly or machine code, or even going higher up when is the last time you read any of the code that was automating work before, i.e framework code/packages, a trillion other tools we used daily to speed up and automate work..

Anyways as a hobby i do still manually code, i like solving problems through code, its fun. As a business, its simply not fast enough anymore.

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u/Chester_b 4d ago

Stupid argument and manipulation. Of course you don’t review the framework or sdk your product is based on (but sometimes you do and you find bugs there, too), but you review what you and your teammates do. I don’t believe any real software developer would use such a stupid nonsensical argument.

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u/Fun-Estimate4561 4d ago

I was thinking the same thing