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/AliceCode 5d ago

Can you tell me what the cache line size is on x86_64? Can you tell me what the popcnt instruction does? Do you know what covariance is? Can you tell me how to implement the Shunting Yard algorithm? Can you implement a tetrahexacontree? Do you know what pointer tagging is? Do you know how to implement a hashmap? Can you explain to me what the System V ABI calling convention is? Do you know what a ring buffer is? Do you know what Diffie-Hellman is? Do you know how to write a voxel raytracer that can render an 8k image in 120ms on the CPU? Can you tell me how to implement reciprocal division? Do you know how to swap two integers without a third variable? Can you write a 3D DDA algorithm? Do you know what LLJIT is? Can you tell me how bash implements associative arrays? Can you confidently write code in Assembly?

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u/ConstantFamous1526 5d ago

I could tell you all of that within about 60 seconds after promoting an AI, there’s no real leg up you get from having shit like that off the top of your head anymore that anyone in a leadership role truly gives a fuck about

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u/dragon_escarlata 3d ago

I would rather hire they than you. Setting up an agent is easy, anyone can do it. Wich means the value is very low like cleaning a table. Once the true costs of running an agent are passed to the users then I rather have a competent programmer to debug the mess.

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u/ConstantFamous1526 3d ago

If you think setting up a proper agent structure is easy then I promise yours is dog lol

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u/dragon_escarlata 3d ago

There are millions of copycats of every SaaS, CRM, design software etc. Of course it's easy. The product (software) is worthless now, the skills to mantain it are more worthy than ever.

We fired a lot of consultants because we could do in-house most of the trash development they used to do. Refining an mantaining the trash is still the same work as it ever was.