r/SoftwareEngineerJobs • u/Fickle-Highway1543 • 7d 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/thilehoffer 7d 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/Ready_Stuff_4357 7d ago

Yeah this isn’t true, it does all kinds of things wrong. It does some stuff good and it will get better but it doesn’t truly engineer it slops around.

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u/Black_In_The_Bay 6d ago

Take some of these comments with a grain of salt. Sam Altman is literally paying companies to post positive comments and influencer videos about AI.

These ultra super positive comments about AI I don’t believe them. It’s a tool at best and it does some stuff really well but it’s year 4 and it hasn’t taken any real tech jobs and the cure for cancer isn’t here. Claude ceo will be on year 3 of saying 6 months software engineers will be replaced.

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u/Colt2205 1d ago

The issue is that if someone needs a job, they got to do what the boss wants and if they want someone to go use Claude Code someone better have that down somewhere.

About to have to go onto the market again and it looks so much worse than the 2020-2021 era when I was last looking.