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mlmonkeytoday at 3:12 AM7 repliesview on HN

That's the thing. Wny are companies like OpenAI/Anthropic/Alibaba/Kimi/Deepseek still hiring SWEs if their models have become so good?


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vitorgrstoday at 5:57 AM

OpenAI can't even build Codex app (not cli) for Linux... I thought code was solved?!

Ironically it's Electron BS, so actually, Sol could probably build itself...

BetterThanSobertoday at 3:29 AM

The models are good even by skeptics standard, it's just that evangelists are overselling the capabilities. If you understand the limits of LLMs not using them as a business is shooting yourself in the foot.

However, they are not at the point where they can effectively train themselves, nor did they are capable of researching their own method of learning. SWEs in mid-corps on my country are right now relegated to reviews and sanity check, basically babysitting the LLMs and making sure they're not spouting nonsense. If you think about it, that's basically QA and can also be delegated to another AI. If Bun's rust rewrite that they tout as fully LLM-led can pass the test of time in a year or so I think that's it.

I believe all that is now constrained by compute and capital, not tech.

cute_boitoday at 3:44 AM

The world never runs out of problem. There is so much work to do.

Mythoriantoday at 3:24 AM

I mean its pretty obvious right? This models are not flawless and sometimes reach stupid conclusions so there needs to be some one who watches it. Thought i must say u are right. Every one of them pretends that this new model is gonna finally take ur jobs lol

wmftoday at 3:27 AM

There's infinite work to be done, so higher productivity makes people worth more. (Obviously this doesn't apply if AI can do everything but we're not there yet.)