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by vertis 814 days ago
Conservatively, I think LLMs will replace SWE roles within the next 5-10 years. In that period SWE roles will change drastically, to be more hearding of AI agents.

We can't hope to compete with something that can edit all the files in less than 5 minutes.

If you're not at least trying to plan what your life will look like under these circumstances then you're doing yourself a disservice.