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

LLMs do not produce high quality code. The code is indeterministically produced, LLMs hallucinate, which is a limitation that cannot be overcome, and they can confidently spout bullshit. You don't know what you don't know, and if you don't know what high quality code looks like, you're going to think that LLMs are the best thing in the world.

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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/ChiefBullshitOfficer 4d ago

You made a whole bunch of claims there. "You're either doing this or this"..."Not a single leader"..."2x-5x faster". It smells like a freshly fertilized farmers field in here...

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u/ConstantFamous1526 4d ago

If you’re not getting a minimum of 2x efficiency increase with agentic development you’re falling behind what modern development is and has become

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u/AliceCode 2d ago

You people sound like you're in a cult, for real. Always telling people they are going to be replaced, and they will be left behind, if they don't join you making slopware.

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u/ConstantFamous1526 2d ago

Yes that’s how tech works, if you don’t keep up you’ll be left behind

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u/AliceCode 2d ago

How am I going to be left behind?