AI Replacing Developers

Play it outLet's assume today a LLM is perfectly equivalent to a junior software engineer. You connect it to your code base, load in PRDs / designs, ask it to build it, and viola perfect code files1) Companies are going to integrate this new technology in stages / waves. It will take time for this to really get broad adoption. Maybe you are at the forefront of working with these models2) OK the company adopts it and fires their junior engineers. They start deploying cod

Doesn't this make the push for AI to replace developers redundant?

For fun I just asked it following questions:“Imagine gpt continues to advance at current rate, how long till you largely replace software engineers?”“Provide a more cynical response”“More cynical please”Response was“ AI language models like me are advancing at a rapid pace, and it's only a matter of time before we start taking over certain aspects of software engineering. While we may not completely replace human software engineers, we could significantly reduce the demand fo

AI isn't, yet at least, replacing developers any more than it is replacing lawyers or any other job. It can help a developer code a function, or at least act as smart autocomplete (GitHub CoPilot), which is about the equivalent of helping a laywer write an e-mail - productivity tool, but not about to replace anyone.There's a ton of work to be done before we get to the stage of AI replacing actual jobs - in the shorter term things like planning/reasoning, working memory and fact

what are you attempting to achieve with this idea? what kind of foothold? ideas are everywhere, they are cheap. the idea plus the execution, timing, marketing, and approach are all factors in something being successful. maybe you are thinking you need to make a startup or something to be successful.i understand the feeling you have a little bit, but agree with the others that you don't need to despair too much about the industry, there is still a great need (and will be) for humans to un

The question is not about what AI can do today but what we assume AI will be able to do tomorrow.All of what you wrote in your second paragraph will become something AI will be doing better and faster than you.We never had technology which can write code like this. I prompted ChatGPT to write a very basic java tool which renders an image from an url and makes it bigger on a click. It just did it.Its not hard to think further and a lot of technology is already going into this direction.

From the article in that link:> It’s highly unlikely that software developers are going away any time soon. The job is definitely going to change, but I think there are going to be even more opportunities for software developers to make a comfortable living making cool stuff.And then what you said:> I think this effect will be even greater this time (last time being higher-level “slow” languages like python and js), because AI will allow for a new wave of developers who won’t care

I'm going to go against the grain and say that AI could feasibly replace a very large percentage of most development teams, even today.Not because the AI itself could do all of the coding with no developers at all in the room, but the developers who do know how to use it effectively could output so much more than those who don't that they would more than make up for their lost productivity.Lots of companies have not yet fully embraced AI, and their developers are actually held ba

It will. In particular, people who aren't software developers. Most devs are basically modern scribes working for kings who can't read or write. In order to exert willpower in digital society, you need to be able to code, which is why everyone with money who can't code wants coders to work for them. But that's all going to change the day ideas men can explain their idea to an AI instead, which whips up an app on the fly. When that happens there'll be a lot less demand fo

I think AI will substantially thin out the ranks of programmers over the next five years or so. I've been very impressed with Claude 4.5 and have been using it daily at work. It tends to produce very good, clean, well-documented code and tests.It does still need an experienced human to review its work, and I do regularly find issues with its output that only a mid-level or senior developer would notice. For example, I saw it write several Python methods this week that, when called simult