Will AI replace most software engineers?

Before AI, this would have taken a dozen engineers 2-3 years.2026-09-29 · Source ↗

that moment is gonna hit coding in 6-18 months2026-10-07 · Source ↗

The $150,000 junior engineer salary the industry treats as the floor for shipping software is now competing with a metered script that doesn't sleep.2026-10-07 · Source ↗not in the panel

I have not read a single line of the code.2026-10-07 · Source ↗

When AI is better at math than humans it also becomes better at algorithm & codebase design At that point the system and delivering quality software doesn’t require human understanding to exist in the actual code layer.2026-10-07 · Source ↗

Software and coding is dead.2026-10-08 · Source ↗not in the panel

Developers make posts like this before AI makes them unemployed.2026-10-08 · Source ↗

Lauren Tan, the engineer behind Grok Bot, just shipped 2,500 PRs last month by letting AI agents write and check the code2026-10-04 · Source ↗not in the panel

In 6 months, 1 engineer built their web, desktop, iOS, and Android apps with AI. Just 1 engineer.2026-10-07 · Source ↗

Software engineering is dead. Meanwhile, frontier models can't even architect a feature end-to-end without hand-holding. Software engineering isn't going anywhere.2026-10-08 · Source ↗not in the panel

Democratised jobs. Where AI absorbs the specialised work, making the occupation easier for non-experts. Examples: software developers, content writers, loan officers, data analysts, medical secretaries, accounting clerks. The barrier to entry drops.2026-10-02 · Source ↗not in the panel