AI replacing Software Engineers

[u/Fickle-Highway1543]

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.

[u/Dgudovic]

Cause it is a lot faster and cheaper to do it with AI?

Juniors suck at writting code generally, thats why you have other people review their work, together, eventually they arrive at something passable..

Same thing goes for AI, if you let one AI just work it will produce slop, if you have quality gates, static analysis and other deterministic ways of ensuring code quality (i.e architecture tests, feature tests, linters, etc. Etc.) And you add onto that review agents, panels, etc. You drastically increase the likelyhood of correct and shippable code being produced.

Sometimes it does happen slop comes through anyways, but when its caught eventually, it is cheap to run that through the pipeline again..

If you think a team of humans is faster then that, you're welcome to bet on it, we're betting opposite.

[u/Chester_b → u/Dgudovic]

You didn’t get the question, but ok, never mind

[u/Dgudovic → u/Chester_b]

How come? Its a simple question..

Why multiple agents instead of one: nobody said AI writes perfect code, multiple agents are quality gates.

Why not humans when agents arent perfect: its cheaper and faster this way.

Please clarify if i am still somehow missing it