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#13Yes and No. Yes: Agents will be there as an option, with less SWEs needed. No: Agents won't be a complete SWE replacement and they still need human SWEs for accountability. Here's a great analogy on driving with autopilot: Say you are driving your car on autopilot. What happens when it stops working or experiences an outage / malfunction? Do you sit there and wait for the provider to get back online or do you take co…
The transition from being the only part of that loop to a backup plan in case the system fails is a difficult one. I’m at the beginning of my career (just starting first internship at a faang equivalent that is pushing ai to the max) and I’m already struggling with the fact that I’m expected to write 0 lines of code manually but be able to review and ship AI code in a repo with millions of commits. In high school I felt like I was made for com sci but I’m not so sure if I want to work with this dependency on ai and feeling of being a second option, even if there will always be jobs for humans.
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#14I’m increasingly acting more like an orchestrator/reviewer than someone writing everything from scratch.
AI dramatically speeds up implementation, but constraints/product judgment still seem very human-heavy.
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#15How does your team handle security audits or compliance? If the code reviews are also agent driven, you have created a closed loop system with no human accountability.
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#16It's very sad situation.
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#17For keeping documentation updated, you can use this platform and it can be very helpful https://getbrifly.com
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#19Sounds close to my team. I just fall in line and let the agents do whatever while I sleep, do laundry or game. Check in occasionally to hit “yes” on prompts.
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#20Instead of coding, people control agents？