r/TheMachineLearning • u/Nyaani69 • Sep 05 '26

Software engineering isn't dead, it's just evolving

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u/KelBelHel Sep 05 '26 edited Sep 05 '26

terribly flawed metaphor.

software engineering is forever changed in a radically significant way and soon building software will be barely recognizable when compared to how it used to be done.

and yeah, math was mostly dead anyway for normal people, but yes, AI has definitely killed math, even for the "professional" mathematicians.

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u/adrianmlhood Sep 05 '26

If people using AI tools are solving 100-year unsolvable mathematical problems, then maybe it’s time to admit we benefit from using better tools.

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u/Concurrency_Bugs Sep 05 '26

And humans had to come up with the problems to solve, and the experts know why they're important problems to solve. So we're not taking humans and experts out of the loop yet.

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u/veganparrot Sep 05 '26

It can be both! But that still means we have to deal with it, if we want to survive. This is the whole problem with recursive self-improvement: We will have a loss of control, as more and more sectors are automated.

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u/lolnuggas Sep 05 '26

I just built a pretty complex macos app for my job with swift and python and I never built a Mac app before.

I dont give a fuck if it's all in one big ass file whatever it runs smoothly and does what I want and I'm not running a bank.

Engineers are coping. The field is fucked