I have yet to hear a single convincing argument by a person that works in software why they can't be replaced.
AI Engineers aren't safe from being replaced by AI
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#12The people who stick around will be the ones who deeply understand the problem, not the ones who are good at wrangling the tools.
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#13If you use AI to do your work, you can be replaced by someone else using AI to do your work.
I’d reframe it: you won’t be replaced by someone using AI, you’ll be replaced by someone who is better at using AI and understands the code it generates
Over the last couple of years, I’ve seen plenty of developers who remain barely competent despite having access to powerful AI tools. Generating code is easy. Evaluating whether it’s actually correct and maintainable is the hard part.
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#14When all the prompts are by AI, and all the commits by AI, and all the use by AI,only then will corporations realize that..something ..
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#15I have yet to hear a single convincing argument by a person that works in software why they can't be replaced.
I've yet to hear an argument that argues that software engineers can be replaced by AI that doesnt boil down to slop apologism, inability to detect slop or simple gaslighting.
These are things I've come to expect from bots, clueless journalists, clueless juniors, clueless expert beginners and clueless members of the professional managerial class but almost never from experienced software engineers.
To be fair, seasoned software engineers always seem to get shouted down online by the former group which is louder and more numerous so you could argue that we "lost" the argument.
Meanwhile big tech's vibe coded monstrosities are increasingly exploding all around us in ever more humiliating ways while the humans who had this tech rammed down their throats get thrown under the bus.
This undeserved halo effect over AI is maintained in order to keep the needle from pricking the ginormous stock market bubble that hinges upon the religious belief in the lie AI Will Replace Us All Soon.
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#16I have yet to hear a single convincing argument by a person that works in software why they can't be replaced.
Well the fact that 0 developers are replaced by AI should tell you something
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#17If you use AI to do your work, you can be replaced by someone else using AI to do your work.
I'm not sure what the take-home of this message is since you can replace "AI" with just about anything... "If you use a keyboard to do your work, you can be replaced by someone else using a keyboard to do your work." Sure? You can always be replaced by someone/something that can do your job better.
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#18Indeed this will likely happen in the future, but not today. I was experimeting with SSD streaming in DwarfStar for DeepSeek v4 PRO inference in 128GB systems (and Flash inference iwth 32/64). GPT 5.5 ran the whole night, I checked what it had accomplished regardless of all the hints I provided in the specification document. After reasoning on the problem I gave him the design fixes and the tokens/sec were 4x after 10 minutes. And this is true for every domain where the human babysitting the AI know a few things in that domain. However this is a moving target, and at the current rate, soon or later, indeed AIs will do much better than us in many domains.
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#19If you use AI to do your work, you can be replaced by someone else using AI to do your work.
I’d reframe it: you won’t be replaced by someone using AI, you’ll be replaced by someone who is better at using AI and understands the code it generates Over the last couple of years, I’ve seen plenty of developers who remain barely competent despite having access to powerful AI tools. Generating code is easy. Evaluating whether it’s actually correct and maintainable is the hard part.
> Evaluating whether it’s actually correct and maintainable is the hard part.
But AI can also do that. So, what’s the point? And if you think it can’t, wait one more year
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#20Once we have AI, that can infinitely improve itself in all directions humanly imaginable, then we have solved AGI, by which time we will have other things to worry about.