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by timkofu 410 days ago
Exactly.

It's like saying "robots are replacing civil engineers". Asphalt laying is about 10%? of the work required in commissioning a road. The deciding whether to build a road at all, the costs, where to build it, the math all need to be done by a civil engineer.

The bulk of Software Engineering is feasibility study, requirements gathering, detailed design (architecture) then finally the implementation phase where AI comes in.

Those stages are in order of importance. Getting it wrong in especially the first two results in a high quality shiny white elephant at best.

The implementation phase is at most 20% but on average 10% of the work required to commission reliable maintainable software.