Software engineers don't get to be Luddites about AI
vismit2000
15 points
5 comments
October 13, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (4 comments)
jackwsmth
Yeah, it's the nature of the game really. It doesn't particularly bother me, but I can understand why people are upset. I think it's one of those things where when it happens to other people, you can't really feel the effects of it. But as soon as it happens to you, you realise what all of those people went through. To me, it's part of technological development and businesses are (of course) going to choose the options which help them improve productivity and likely decrease costs in the long run. For people that really enjoy programming, I think it becomes closer to something like a hobby.
bayarearefugee
I agree that there is cosmic karma when it comes to software engineers being automated out of jobs, but I don't agree with the tired idea that a bunch of new jobs are going to magically appear to replace what is lost. Machines with superior cognition to humans is completely unchartered territory and fundamentally changes everything . Assuming an industrial-revolution-esque new set of jobs to materialize is naive copium.
cedws
Like the author but didn’t like this post. I was born in 2000s, how the fuck is it my fault that people were replaced by software? Why do I deserve to be punished? Have my generation not had a hard enough time, now they have even fewer paths to a good career.
slau
While I don’t know anyone who at this point challenges the idea that LLLMs will have no lasting impact on the industry, what I struggle with is the handwaving and the zealotry. Can an agentic harness be used somewhat successfully? Yes, undoubtably so. Do agents still come up with absolutely bonkers solutions on a regular basis? Also yes. The problem, again and again, is the way that humans evaluate intelligence. When you’ve asserted that someone is reasonably smart, it will take you a very significant amount of proof of the contrary to change that opinion. What we need, for LLMs to become reliable intellectual partners, is a way for them to convey lack of certainty. This is, by the way, also the same thing that many of the LLM-luddites want of the LLM-zealots.