Raw LLM Responses

> Anyone that thinks AI can replace all devs is an idiot. Or they do very, very trivial work. (This is not mutually exclusive from your comment). Building modern distributed software systems is **so much more** than just writing code. AI is phenomenal at simple, small, bounded tasks. It is abysmal at the large-scale, ambiguous tasks that a real engineer does. The two things are light years apart, it's not like improving the current AI models will somehow bridge that gap. Anybody who thinks otherwise doesn't understand real engineering. I've had 3 different real life friends in the past 2 weeks tell me that other friends of theirs "lost their programming jobs to AI". I have to be polite and express my condolences rather than rolling my eyes and scoffing. They lost their jobs because of economic conditions. And maybe the company blamed it on AI. But anybody who believes that line is just as foolish as somebody who believes a company when they reject them after an interview by saying "you're not experienced enough" (when the company already read the resume and knew the experience level **before** the interview), or who believes an ex-lover who says "it's not you, it's me." It's both sad and hilarious to me how many people believe this narrative, and also how widespread it has become... I can't go anywhere without hearing somebody talking about it. Reminds me of 2006 when I couldn't go anywhere without hearing a conversation about real estate investment (and never a single word about a bubble).