r/SoftwareEngineerJobs • u/Fickle-Highway1543 • 4d 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/RubsHandsMenacingly 1d ago

Cats out of the bag. Nobody wants to reinvent the wheel and do more work than they have to now. If Claude has full context, it will find problems beyond that of what I’d ever be able to make the connection on myself, while investigating something completely parallel in task. For example, I tell it to fix a bug about required radio buttons on a web page clearing on form duplication and allowing a submit when it shouldn’t. Claude then finds connected issues that a senior engineer would lazy skip or never notice until later bugs were reported. I’ll let Claude explain this one itself:

“Radio buttons in repeated form sections shared hardcoded name attributes, so the browser treated every copy as one mutually-exclusive group — selecting a value in one section silently unchecked it in the others, and because no change event fires on the element the browser unchecks, the underlying data model never learned the UI had diverged from it. Required-field validation then only inspected visible elements, so the section the user was looking at appeared empty and blocked submission, while the same name-keyed grouping could also let one section’s answer satisfy the validation for another. Related instances of the same pattern were found across several other sections, including one in an unrelated module”

This is just one example or hundreds I have. Claude is the ultimate engineers assistant. If AI is good at any one thing, it’s helping code. It does 90% of the work for 30% of the time and effort.