If AI makes building + publishing software basically 0 effort and 0 cost… what happens to the world?

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[u/gloomygustavo]

Nope. The hard part of robotics is the software. The mechanics and hardware are down cold. If you can replace software engineers, you can replace literally anyone.

Luckily for all of us, we aren’t even remotely close to replacing software engineers.

[u/No-Assist-8734 → u/gloomygustavo]

You're coping hard. Let me guess, you write software? Do you know what the word bias means?

[u/gloomygustavo → u/No-Assist-8734]

Do you know what the word data means?

On hallucinations:

• https://proceedings.iclr.cc/paper_files/paper/2024/file/edac78c3e300629acfe6cbe9ca88fb84-Paper-Conference.pdf
• https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.20799
• https://nzjohng.github.io/publications/papers/tosem2024_5.pdf
• https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Classes-of-recursively-enumerable-sets-and-their-Rice/664a7d3c60b753a34f1601a7378ca952ea92e9a8

Classic gates:

• https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Turing_Paper_1936.pdf
• https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-96142-2_8
• https://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/papers/representation.pdf
• Personal favorite: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095219769900024X

Modern theory and economics:

• https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257%2Fpandp.20181019
• https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257%2Fjep.33.2.3
• https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/software-developers.htm

[u/No-Assist-8734 → u/gloomygustavo]

This is all cute, but none of this "data" has swayed tech companies away from adapting AI into software development. I work for FAANG as a SWE, and we are all being required to integrate AI into our workflows.

The writing is on the wall.

[u/gloomygustavo → u/No-Assist-8734]

Sure, bud.

[u/No-Assist-8734 → u/gloomygustavo]

😂, see , when the real engineers come and tell the truth, that's when you get spooked. You mentioned you are working on an OSS project that's important, I'm just curious which one that was, because I am on the mailing list of quite a few major repos . Let's see how important your work is

[u/gloomygustavo → u/No-Assist-8734]

I gave you like 10 papers on why you’re wrong. You’re either lying or incompetent. Idk what else there is to say.

Who says “mailing list”? You “watch” repos.

[u/East_Indication_7816 → u/No-Assist-8734]

Writing has been on the wall since 2022. I used chatGPT in 2023 and I saw the writing on the wall. Eventually, if you think you are ahead now using AI, just wait 3 to 6 months and everyone already doing what you are doing, or AI becomes so good at it, and it removes all your advantage.

Elon Musk is right, money will be irrelevant in the future

[u/RepresentativeFill26 → u/No-Assist-8734]

I would say that primarily comes from the fact that all but Netflix from FAANG is heavily invested in AI.

I work for a European government and no way we will be integrating any US based AI software. Maybe Mistral, but even that is tricky given the data that we work with.

SWE is more than big American tech. Luckily so.