[rvz]

Yes and No.

  Yes:  Agents will be there as an option, with less SWEs needed.
   No:  Agents won't be a complete SWE replacement and they still need human SWEs for accountability.

Here's a great analogy on driving with autopilot:

Say you are driving your car on autopilot. What happens when it stops working or experiences an outage / malfunction?

Do you sit there and wait for the provider to get back online or do you take control of the wheel yourself?

So having said that:

> All code reviews are agent driven. No one takes the time to actually understand anything. Documentation has become novel length slop, as have Jira tickets.

> I ship stuff I don't understand.

Looking at my above sentence and judging by this workflow, is the future of driving having people never looking on the roads and no hands on the wheel while driving and they should wait for the provider to fix the outage whilst being stranded on the motorway?

Both driving and SWE will always require a human in the loop in case the system fails and requires human intervention.

[jitliangfuh]

The transition from being the only part of that loop to a backup plan in case the system fails is a difficult one. I’m at the beginning of my career (just starting first internship at a faang equivalent that is pushing ai to the max) and I’m already struggling with the fact that I’m expected to write 0 lines of code manually but be able to review and ship AI code in a repo with millions of commits. In high school I felt like I was made for com sci but I’m not so sure if I want to work with this dependency on ai and feeling of being a second option, even if there will always be jobs for humans.