[8organicbits]

> the technical specialty that will be most at threat from automation by AI

Can you point to any actual AI product in this space that functions? Everything I've seen is like, if you squint then it kinda looks like it's doing something, but it's actually producing something embarrassingly wrong, unsafe, or otherwise unusable. And no, having a SME repeatedly prompt until it does the right thing doesn't really make sense.

If we're just talking about hypothetical tools that someone could make, but haven't, we're talking about magic.

[fragmede]

> embarrassingly wrong, unsafe, or otherwise unusable.

You might know the difference as an SME, but if you're not, and it passes terraform apply, it's getting used.

[8organicbits]

This mentality is why I'm confident that I'll have a job in both software development and security.

[game_the0ry]

> Can you point to any actual AI product in this space that functions?

Today? No. But I think we will get here sooner than automating on any other type of engineering role.

[cleandreams]

Sure. It's coming with GPT-5.