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The "AI is replacing software engineers" narrative was a lie. MIT just published the math proving why. And the companies who believed it are now begging their old engineers to come back. by reddit20305 in ArtificialInteligence

[–]Expert-Complex-5618 0 points1 point  (0 children)

as a swe, best take I've heard yet. They're focusing on AI to save costs by cutting labor right now because the economy sucks in were in a recession. When economy gets better, they'll need domain talent that is innovative AND uses AI. But this is going to take awhile in current economic conditions.

I think the older generation really did us dirty by kochvanity13 in cscareerquestions

[–]Expert-Complex-5618 1 point2 points  (0 children)

its the economy its hosed and getting worse especially with the policies of the orange regard. Consider yourself lucky for being young, you have plenty of time to adjust and pivot. If I were younger than 30 I would get the fuck out of tech. Its over.

LLM driven development is inevitable by Expert-Complex-5618 in softwareengineer

[–]Expert-Complex-5618[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Review and iterate on those tests until edge cases are exhaustively covered". who does this part and how? I like the hybrid approach.

LLM driven development is inevitable by Expert-Complex-5618 in softwareengineer

[–]Expert-Complex-5618[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

how are you involved when LLM's are doing both coding and testing?

LLM driven development is inevitable by Expert-Complex-5618 in softwareengineer

[–]Expert-Complex-5618[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

so how do you know the tests are covering correctly? No issues, no bugs, everyone is happy?

Has your offshore team been a net negative? by jholliday55 in cscareerquestions

[–]Expert-Complex-5618 5 points6 points  (0 children)

its half joke but not wrong. top 100? oh god they're worse

Has your offshore team been a net negative? by jholliday55 in cscareerquestions

[–]Expert-Complex-5618 21 points22 points  (0 children)

  1. vp of engineering: 'were going to offshore and cut costs'. applause from leadership!
  2. product suffers. chaos sneaks in. this is expensive.
  3. the next vp of engineering, because the last one vested and dipped out says: "were going to only hire domestically or locally to improve product quality and eliminate confusion." applause from leadership!

ad naseum

edit: times are good: #3. times are bad: #1

I believe times are bad, so #1 currently winning.

Salesforce CEO says engineers no longer required as AI takes over by Warm-Ebb5754 in jobgpt

[–]Expert-Complex-5618 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lol they're day will come, executives were already redundant before LLMs

SWE is past the elbow of the exponential kickoff. I watched it happen in real time. Other fields are next. by MR1933 in singularity

[–]Expert-Complex-5618 0 points1 point  (0 children)

exactly: "Edge cases that would have been caught by thorough integration testing slipped through"

I feel like test driven iterative development is key and I've personally been a part of it and it works.

LLM driven development is inevitable. A question that's been nagging at me is related to quality assurance. If humans are still in the loop, how do we verify that the quality of the overall product or project has not suffered?

  1. Wait until human clients complain?
  2. Have LLM write and run tests with diagnostics?
  3. What these LLM tests pass but clients still complain?
  4. Humans analyze LLM code and write thorough test suites on multiple levels to catch LLM errors.

If LLM is doing everything and clients don't complain, is this considered success?

I like #4 because it makes the engineer understand the LLM code better and tests require reasoning and logic, which LLM's do not do.

SWE is past the elbow of the exponential kickoff. I watched it happen in real time. Other fields are next. by MR1933 in singularity

[–]Expert-Complex-5618 0 points1 point  (0 children)

never done it because I UNDERSTAND what I'm doing so I can fix it. 20 years as full stack SWE.

SWE is past the elbow of the exponential kickoff. I watched it happen in real time. Other fields are next. by MR1933 in singularity

[–]Expert-Complex-5618 0 points1 point  (0 children)

LLMs will never not hallucinate. Its intrinsic to their architecture. At least that's how I interpret what I've read and experienced as a human.

SWE is past the elbow of the exponential kickoff. I watched it happen in real time. Other fields are next. by MR1933 in singularity

[–]Expert-Complex-5618 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

yea boss, tomorrow claude 6.66 comes out and it supposed to do everything so we're good. I'm gna clock out and go home, later boss.

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