Raw LLM Responses

I think that the people who say AI will replace software engineers fall into two main categories: * New grads who buy the hype * Experienced engineers who understand how management thinks. And the reasoning that the latter group has is very different from the former. It’s not that AI can replace everything a trained software engineer does. It’s that the executives who sign your checks will *believe* that AI can replace everything a trained software does, and layoff all the engineers for vibe-coding PMs anyway. The consequences of bad code are usually not felt for years, and externalized onto the company’s customers anyway. By that time the executive will have moved on to their next company to ruin. In my view (20+ YOE, including over a decade in FANG), AI is going to benefit three major groups: * Blowhards (vibe-coding founders and PMs that’ll mock up an app that more-or-less works in a demo, and then sell it) * Parasites (black-hat hackers who will use all the new vulnerabilities in AI software to siphon money and personal data out of mission-critical systems) * cybersecurity consultants