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seattle_springlast Saturday at 4:18 AM3 repliesview on HN

Anyone who knows anything about software and has used AI for more than 24 hours knows that AI won't be "replacing" software engineering anytime soon.


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mlinhareslast Saturday at 10:19 PM

That doesn’t matter, what matters is making the narrative stick.

akmarinovlast Saturday at 6:11 AM

Hard disagree, I’ve been agentic coding the past couple of months and have written maybe 100 lines doing this for a living.

The rest is coming up with SDDs and reviewing AI’s code.

I can easily see most devs, doctors and lawyers automated away in the next couple of years.

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ldjkfkdsjnvlast Saturday at 4:29 AM

ive been coding 5+ hours a day almost every day for 15 years. i think ai will replace 70% of SWE in the near future. not employement, but 70% of the current work done by engineers

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