software engineer

also referred to as: software engineers

5 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jun 15, 2023 by Duncan Campbell · across every show →

Everything said about software engineer, oldest first

Jun 15, 2023 positive
Insight
Campbell: ChatGPT's 'permaflow' eliminates human context-switching penalties
“Every time you go back to you know, chat.openai.com and go into this chat, It has a perfect state of where it was previously, right? So I said four or five hours of continuous work, but in reality, it was a bunch of 45 minute segments. And I didn't have to lik…”
Duncan Campbell Jun 15, 2023 ▶ 1:03:57 AI for climate: a real world test
Jun 15, 2023 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Campbell: AI will not replace software engineers but make individuals team-scale
“I don't see this replacing software engineers. Just as it empowered me, like I very much see a great software engineer just using this to save a ton of time, right? Telling it exactly what to do with a level of specificity about programming that I could never …”
Duncan Campbell Jun 15, 2023 ▶ 1:13:07 AI for climate: a real world test
Jun 15, 2023 neutral
Opinion
Madaeni: AI will shift software engineering toward prompting, code review, and QA
“At the end of the day, we're flying a plane that's, we're souping up the autopilot system, but I think we still need pilots. And, you know, a pilot with an autopilot system is a different kind of a pilot. So it's mostly about, I wouldn't say essay writing, but…”
Seyed Madaeni Jun 15, 2023 ▶ 20:39 AI for climate: a real world test
Jun 15, 2023 neutral
Opinion
Madaeni: Engineers with both backend software and optimization expertise are extremely rare
“Software engineers do a lot of the back-end data engineering, post-processing of results, putting it in the architecture. That's why you go and hire optimization engineers, people with OR backgrounds and math models that can write Optimization level software. …”
Seyed Madaeni Jun 15, 2023 ▶ 51:41 AI for climate: a real world test
Sep 3, 2026 neutral
Assertion Contradicted
Kann: Software engineering is the only job category truly displaced by AI to date
“And in fact, the only jobs that have been lost really because of AI to date are like software engineers.”
Shayle Kann Sep 3, 2026 ▶ 17:03 What comes after the data center backlash?
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