Comment by deadbabe
13 days ago
CRE - Code Reliability Engineering
AI will not get much better than what we have today, and what we have today is not enough to totally transform software engineering. It is a little easier to be a software engineer now, but that’s it. You can still fuck everything up.
> AI will not get much better than what we have today
Wow, where did this come from?
From what just comes to my mind based on recent research, I'd expect at least the following this or next year:
* Continuous learning via an architectural change like Titans or TTT-E2E.
* Advancement in World Models (many labs focusing on them now)
* Longer-running agentic systems, with Gas Town being a recent proof of concept.
* Advances in computer and browser usage - tons of money being poured into this, and RL with self-play is straightforward
* AI integration into robotics, especially when coupled with world models
All the new “advances” in AI (LLMs) will mostly be from better context engineering. The core feature of an intelligent response for a given prompt will not improve much.
The stuff you mention is unproven in usefulness or is so far away that most software engineers have enough time to wrap up their careers and retire gainfully.
AI has already been integrated with robotics. We have entire factories running entirely with robots in the dark. For mass consumer markets, a floor vacuuming and mopping robot that can also climb stairs is probably peak robotics. They already build world models that map out your entire home and reason about materials and cleanliness.
There’s not much more juice left to squeeze here. The next frontier is genetic programming (biological).
What does robotics have to do with writing better code? Is this just a random AI wishlist?