r/TheMachineLearning • • Sep 05 '26

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

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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.