Comment by doweneedai47
6 days ago
These are people who don't understand the job of SWE.
Look, the job of a medicine doctor, or a plane pilot, have largely been automated. The doctor could rely on google searches, or even AI, to answer your questions. The pilot can trust the auto pilot. Yet, the doctor who does advanced stuff (surgery) has no shortcut to mastering his skill : he still has to go through 10 years of studies + years of experience under the supervision of a senior with 20y of XP. Similar path for the plane pilot.
And the same reasoning applies to the SWE. AI allows to : delegate the repetitive tasks, generate the boilerplate code, fix time consuming bugs, to focus on more meaningful stuff.
AI is a tool. It's an additional layer of abstraction. The winners will be the guys who are passionate, who still put efforts to master SW, who still put efforts to remain up to date with the regular updates (new releases, new libraries, new approaches...), and who understand how to use AI the right way.
All those guys who 100% rely on AI do is help big tech cover their massive costs for the deployment of AI infrastructures. Big tech does need those guys.
Imagine the auto pilot fails for some reason, during a flight. There are 400 passengers behind. This is a minor issue for the trained and experienced pilot.
What do you do, as a SWE, when tomorrow, anthropic/google/whoever, tells you : "we can't keep running at a loss, our prices for AI have to reflect our costs. Your monthly subscription for Claude is now $500/month". Or there is a power shortage and for a couple of days you cannot rely on AI, you can only rely on your brain to deliver this feature you committed to deliver tomorrow ?
>Look, the job of a medicine doctor, or a plane pilot, have largely been automated. The doctor could rely on google searches, or even AI, to answer your questions.
And clearly you are not someone who understands the job of a physician.