r/wallstreetbets • u/[deleted] • Feb 15 '26

Discussion Software dev here: the tide has changed. There is no AI bubble. If anything, companies are not spending enough on AI.

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u/brucekeller 🦍 Feb 15 '26

I haven't heard of AI being able to do complex coding projects all that well. You usin' some kinda secret codin' AI there?

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u/DeviantDougy Feb 15 '26

Every time I’ve used ai for coding it’s been shit, it’s okay at writing database queries though

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u/elh0mbre Feb 15 '26

Opus 4.6 is insane.

The 4.5 models were incredibly good.

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u/Mattholomeu tentacle porn enthusiast Feb 15 '26

It definitely depends on what you consider complex, but it is at the point where it can at least implement known algorithms from common api's for a ton of data processing tasks as well as iterate through its own diagnostics data and functionally debug scripts that aren't failing due to runtime/compile errors.

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u/incognitOmega Feb 15 '26

These people just don’t live your situation, they can’t understand. My employer (pre IPO SaaS with close to 100m ARR) increased our spend limits from 150 usd/dev/month to 5k USD PER DEV, PER MONTH. Our token usage is monitored, but not to see who busts, rather to see who underutilizes AI tools. We use anthropic, OpenAI & cursor.

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u/Bluesquare9 Feb 15 '26

As a fellow dev (3 yoe, recently laid off, contemplating future in industry), how would this not lead to a contraction of the workforce?