Comment by TuxSH
4 hours ago
Not the person you are replying to but, even if the technical skills of AI increase (and stuff like Codex and Claude Code is indeed insanely good), you still need someone to make risky decisions that could take down prod.
Not sure management is eager to give permission to software owned by other companies (inference providers) the permission to delete prod DBs.
Also these roles usually involve talking to other teams and stakeholder more often than with a traditional SWE role.
Though
> There are no hiding places for any of us.
I agree with this statement. While the timeline is unclear (LLM use is heavily subsidized), I think this will translate into less demand for engineers, overall.
I think it is important to know that AI needs to be maintained. You can't reasonably expect it to have a 99.9% reliability rate. As long as this remains true work will exist in the foreseeable future.
Indeed, however the amount of "someone" is going to be way less.