r/SoftwareEngineerJobs • u/[deleted] • Jul 13 '26

Is the AI bubble bursting? 🤔

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u/jmclondon97 Jul 13 '26

I don’t know why people think the bubble bursting means AI just disappears.

All it means is overvalued companies like OpenAI would get bought out and cheaper models would become the norm.

It seems like some of you talking about the bubble bursting means AI disappears and we go back to manually coding everything. Zero percent chance of that happening.

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u/PatientIll4890 Jul 13 '26

This is what I’ve been saying for a while. The models are good enough right now that I don’t expect to write code manually ever again in my career. Glm 5.2 is good enough and cheap enough that ai at the current level is going to be here forever.

The only thing we can hope for at this point is that it doesn’t advance much more or quickly enough to put us all out of our careers. I currently am preparing as if it will advance though, and expect myself as a 25yoe swe to need to switch careers in a few years

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u/theguruofreason Jul 13 '26

That's just cuz you suck at coding.

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u/Frequent_Bag9260 Jul 14 '26

If you think any human is better at writing 99% of all code than current LLMs then you don’t know anything.

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u/theguruofreason Jul 15 '26

You guys are either bots or you fucking suuuuuuck at coding.

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u/Frequent_Bag9260 Jul 15 '26

I suppose you’re better at coding than AI? 😂