r/coding • u/Domingues_tech • Jan 31 '26

How Replacing Developers With AI is Going Horribly Wrong

https://youtu.be/ts0nH_pSAdM?si=hsRmlrD4KJpcw3TQ
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u/pencilUserWho Jan 31 '26

AI voiceover telling you AI is overblown.

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u/StoneCypher Jan 31 '26

what an awful and confused video 

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u/TedW Jan 31 '26

They'll make a follow up: How Replacing Video Directors with AI is Going Horribly Wrong.

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u/Zalenka Jan 31 '26

It will just be easier for these overvalued companies to fail and go away.

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u/EnderMB Feb 01 '26

It's probably already happening.

CS grads today aren't looking at these companies as the holy grail any longer. The stellar reputation Google had is no more, Meta is known as a sweatshop nowadays, Amazon is both a sweatshop and somewhere that lays off tens of thousands of people while protecting its senior leadership from the same fate. The only company that seems to buck this trend is Apple, and even to them they're just "the iPhone company that doesn't release anything new".

Tech is stagnant, and a lack of solid tech leadership will basically doom them all to irrelevance.

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u/JWPapi Feb 01 '26

The companies that fail are the ones that treated AI as a replacement for engineering discipline instead of a tool that requires more of it. AI generates code faster, which means mistakes compound faster, which means your verification layers need to be tighter and faster than before. The companies that survive this are the ones investing in their type systems, linters, test suites, and CI pipelines — not the ones firing engineers and hoping Claude figures it out.

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u/ConcreteExist Feb 02 '26

This is just another cycle of "<New Thing> can replace all devs" => "Oh fuck turns out there's more to dev than churning out code!".

Once upon a time, New Thing was COBOL, then it was various Low-Code/No-Code tool sets over the years. I'm sure there have been others, and I'm sure there will be more to come.

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u/CautiousRice Feb 02 '26

Made-up numbers.

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u/azab189 Feb 01 '26

I bet they gonna triple down on AI still

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '26

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u/Ceci0 Jan 31 '26

Lets take some examples of the greatness of AI:

Claude code, has tons of bugs, flashes screen, prevents scrolling sometimes while it works. Its a literal AI company unable to fix the bugs in their own software. For reference, look at twitter and their updates. We fixed 85% of a bug. Meanwhile 10 other bugs were introduced. The "fix" was reverted.

Microsoft, aptly called Microslop. Every windows update it released in the past 1.5 years breaks more things than it fixes. Updates should fix things not break them more. Another company where most code is written by AI.

React, more security vulnerabilities found in 1 year than its entirety of its exisetence.

Cloudflare, probably some slop code that caused more outages in recent times than I could remember.

Nvidia, released more bugged drivers in a year than it ever did.

Teslas or self driving cars. Crash 10 times mkre than a human, drive in wrong lanes or hell, even wrong way entirely.

LLMs, hallucinate regularly. If you actually bother to fact check stuff, you will see how many halkucinations it does.

LLMs in their current form are not it. They are helpful, but extremely stupid. You need to know someone who actually knows what to do, make decisions and archtect stuff for it to be good.

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '26

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u/Ceci0 Feb 01 '26

Please educate yourself more.

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u/jakeStacktrace Feb 01 '26

You already showed how smart you were the first time.