[Sohcahtoa82]

We're still a very long ways away from LLMs/AI replacing SWEs. I don't even think we'll see them replace SWE in my lifetime, at least not with the way LLMs work currently.

LLMs are great at producing single functions, maybe even a whole class. But they really are terrible architects and can't produce something that requires multiple systems to interact. Their simple method of "predict the next token" is bad at planning and is mainly incapable of producing complex systems.

Until AI gets to a point where you can just say "Create an MMORPG with these features [....]", there will be a need for SWEs. Until then, it's just "Create a function that adds all the stat bonuses from the player's gear" and hope that it can understand your other code that defines the player's gear.