AI Engineers aren't safe from being replaced by AI(dmanco.dev)
21 pointsby Doch882 hours ago11 comments
  • kumarvvr10 minutes ago
    When all the prompts are by AI, and all the commits by AI, and all the use by AI,only then will corporations realize that..something ..
  • motbus324 minutes ago
    How surprised people will be when they learn that their prompts and skills and etc are being saved for ai training even though they said it would not be
  • witx28 minutes ago
    "Engineers"

    Of course not, all these sloppers are doing is training the models so at the eyes of management they are good enough for a replacement. The ones who stay will have 10x more work.

  • ElenaDaibunny15 minutes ago
    The people who stick around will be the ones who deeply understand the problem, not the ones who are good at wrangling the tools.
  • asdff24 minutes ago
    They select for people who are beholden to AI, probably to eventually have the model do the job of prompting if the model is expected to be doing the doing anyhow. Anthropic job posts I've seen have explicitly said you should use claude to claude-ify your resume before submitting. I'm guessing it's an auto reject if you don't. If they are asking for you to use their ai tool for step 0 before you even work there, they are going to want you to use it for all your job functions and communications. And all of that will be logged, used as training data, and will justify not hiring to fill your seat when you leave or get canned.
  • merksittich22 minutes ago
    Loosely related: Long read in today's FT on "The race to build AI that can improve itself" (https://www.ft.com/content/7cc7800f-18ed-47d8-9539-221ae3e16...). Although this may be more relevant to replacing AI researchers, not AI engineers...

    (Submitted as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48380643 )

  • muldvarp18 minutes ago
    I have yet to hear a single convincing argument by a person that works in software why they can't be replaced.
    • Ilikeruby7 minutes ago
      Well the fact that 0 developers are replaced by AI should tell you something
    • pydry9 minutes ago
      I've yet to hear an argument that argues that software engineers can be replaced by AI that doesnt boil down to slop apologism, inability to detect slop or simple gaslighting.

      These are things I've come to expect from bots, clueless journalists, clueless juniors, clueless expert beginners and clueless members of the professional managerial class but almost never from experienced software engineers.

      To be fair, seasoned software engineers always seem to get shouted down online by the former group which is louder and more numerous so you could argue that we "lost" the argument.

  • nDRDY25 minutes ago
    If you use AI to do your work, you can be replaced by someone else using AI to do your work.
    • drakonka6 minutes ago
      I'm not sure what the take-home of this message is since you can replace "AI" with just about anything... "If you use a keyboard to do your work, you can be replaced by someone else using a keyboard to do your work." Sure? You can always be replaced by someone/something that can do your job better.
    • puritanicdev13 minutes ago
      I’d reframe it: you won’t be replaced by someone using AI, you’ll be replaced by someone who is better at using AI and understands the code it generates

      Over the last couple of years, I’ve seen plenty of developers who remain barely competent despite having access to powerful AI tools. Generating code is easy. Evaluating whether it’s actually correct and maintainable is the hard part.

  • Havoc21 minutes ago
    I suspect everyone has a bit of „my job is special“ delusion tbh just with varying degrees of self awareness
  • dude25071136 minutes ago
    Let's not offend actual real engineers.
  • jazz9kan hour ago
    There are already AI certificafions for engineer on very new/ever changing technology.
    • mnky9800n30 minutes ago
      This comment certifies you as ai expert.