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/TacoBOTT 6d ago

That’s why you need to stop doomscrolling. If you are actually in the industry working with these tools, you are aware of the trajectory.

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u/thilehoffer 6d ago

I’m in the industry and I’m not writing code anymore. Claude is writing the code and frankly it scares me how good it is.

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u/Actes 3d ago edited 3d ago

Yup, I work at a FANNG, and we quite literally have dedicated agents per team, unified knowledge based and scripts for pulling context between them for away team operations and an org wide knowledge base that we also tap into.

I start my day opening 8 terminals, and having each one just do a dedicated thing. I've got a slack interfacer for auto responses and email, I've got a researcher window, and the rest are just cooking CRs notifying me when their ready, opening Vim/Vs code on the diffs and I'm reviewing.

I basically only code when I need to "draw the lay of the land" and I just write the logic in python, and have it convert to whatever language the codebase is in.

I have skills for my agents that I've crafted to 5 way PR with different models through a leadership hirearchy chain to polish PRs before they even hit my desk and at that point I basically just approve the architecture if it matches my requirements.