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Re:Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career by KronisLV on Monday May 11, 2026 @03:19PM (#48099447)
> Its no closer to that than it was 4 years ago.

There are people and companies out there releasing entire vibe coded projects and for some upwards of 80% of the code they develop is AI-assisted/generated. Since around the end of 2025 and models like Opus 4.6, the SOTA has gotten good enough to work agentically on all sorts of dev tasks with pretty good degrees of success (harnesses and how you use them still matters, ofc).

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Re:Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career by wiseowise on Monday May 11, 2026 @03:36PM (#48099644)
> There are people and companies out there releasing entire vibe coded projects and for some upwards of 80% of the code they develop is AI-assisted/generated.

And how much revenue do they generate?

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Re:Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career by lbrito on Monday May 11, 2026 @07:39PM (#48102260)
What's their balance, revenue - AI expenses? Using the real token costs, not the subsidized costs.
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