[laszlojamf]

I think the missing piece here is nuance. Of course there are certain tasks that software engineers do that will be replaced. But will AI replace _everything_ a software engineer does? The most difficult bit about software engineering is to keep a mental model of _everything_ a product does with varying levels of granularity. The way I see LLMs fail at my company the most is that they are very good at the big picture, and very good at the very small picture, but have difficulty moving between those two levels. And especially when changes have occurred or accumulated over time. Most of all production systems have an extremely long tail of gotchas which are only managed by people who have been around for long enough to have some kind of deep storage access in their heads to those little tidbits of information. And I think current LLMs might be fundamentally incapable of replacing that.