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foresterretoday at 6:31 AM1 replyview on HN

The first link states literally

"AI will take over almost all the work of software engineers (SWEs) end - to - end in just 6 - 12 months!"

What you describe is >50% of the job of SWEs, even when they write all code by hand.

Are you saying that "for many start-ups", this isn't done by SWE's but by some other career type or are you implying that it's just the code written (and first review) is replaced by AI?


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nopinsighttoday at 7:25 AM

I have watched Dario’s interview at WEF referred to in the article and I am quite certain Dario didn’t say that. He talked about AI automating most coding already or soon, not software engineering as a whole.

He did say a few months later in an interview in India that AI will eventually take over most of SWE tasks.

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My statement on startups is largely about automating coding by SWEs. My startup also uses AI to automate part of technical specifications and code review but I am not sure how widespread that is.