AI is naturallly great at tasks like administrative support, data analysis, research organization, technical writing, and even math—skills that can streamline workflows and drive revenue. There are several jobs that AI can already do very well.
So why are companies so focused on replacing software engineers first?? Why are the first AI agents coming out “AI programmers”?
AI is poorly suited for traditional software engineering. It lacks the ability to understand codebase context, handle complex system design, or resolve ambiguous requirements—key parts of an engineer’s job. While it performs well on well-defined tasks like coding challenges, it fails with the nuanced, iterative problem-solving real-world development requires.
Yet, unlike many mindless desk jobs, or even traditional IT jobs, software engineers seem to be the primary target for AI replacement. Why?? It feels like they just want to get rid of us at this point imo
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r/cscareerquestions AI is naturallly great at tasks like administrative support, data analysis, research organization, technical writing, and even math—skills that can streamline workflows and drive revenue. There are several jobs that AI can already do very well. So why are companies so focused on replacing software engineers first?? Why are the first AI agents coming out “AI programmers”? AI is poorly suited for traditional software engineering. It lacks the ability to understand codebase context, handle complex system design, or resolve ambiguous requirements—key parts of an engineer’s job. While it performs well on well-defined tasks like coding challenges, it fails with the nuanced, iterative problem-solving real-world development requires. Yet, unlike many mindless desk jobs, or even traditional IT jobs, software engineers seem to be the primary target for AI replacement. Why?? It feels like they just want to get rid of us at this point imo submitted by /u/EastCommunication689 [link] [comments]
AI is naturallly great at tasks like administrative support, data analysis, research organization, technical writing, and even math—skills that can streamline workflows and drive revenue. There are several jobs that AI can already do very well.
So why are companies so focused on replacing software engineers first?? Why are the first AI agents coming out “AI programmers”?
AI is poorly suited for traditional software engineering. It lacks the ability to understand codebase context, handle complex system design, or resolve ambiguous requirements—key parts of an engineer’s job. While it performs well on well-defined tasks like coding challenges, it fails with the nuanced, iterative problem-solving real-world development requires.
Yet, unlike many mindless desk jobs, or even traditional IT jobs, software engineers seem to be the primary target for AI replacement. Why?? It feels like they just want to get rid of us at this point imo
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