Is AI Ready to Be a Mid-Level Engineer?

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2 points | by namanyayg 5 hours ago

5 comments

  • matkoniecz 5 hours ago
    > Current AI tools are unable to keep large codebases in context, making it impossible to reason about system-wide impacts.

    they have trouble even with small database, recently I was experimenting with generating a small script

    Code-gen tools generated nice testcases from description (this was usable!).

    But code they generated failed on exactly this testcases, feeding back crashes/test failures resulted in no improvements. I tried several (Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, Mistral). None was able to do this.

  • grajaganDev 5 hours ago
    AI or LLMs? Not specified in the article.

    LLMs will never be ready.

  • rvz 4 hours ago
    It is already is. Sam Altman told you right in your face.

    These AI agents will go after both mid-level and senior-level engineers and set the price of them in a couple of years time.

    What is also certain is that there will be far less engineers hired.

  • asvirts 5 hours ago
    Right now? No way. In the future? Maybe.
    • namanyayg 5 hours ago
      That's what I felt too, described what's missing in my article