u/Nuplexin r/ExperiencedDevs • Recommends
On “What’s the mood at your company?”
Do actual software enigneers actually believe what that guy said?
That guy claimed a year ago our jobs would be gone in 3 to 6 months.
Here's a great video on this: link to this video
I'm pretty shocked that anyone in r/experienceddevs actually thinks AI is going to take over our jobs any time soon. Yes, companies will attempt to layoff people thinking AI will fill in the gap. Yes, juniors are being "replaced" by AI.
But AI is nowhere near being able to take over an experienced engineers end to end job. We do a lot more than coding. And even with coding, LLMs fundamentally are incapable of creating novel solutions, which is a very core component of senior development. As for juniors, unfortunately…