About whether cheap open coding models like CodeLlama threaten software engineering jobs.
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About whether cheap open coding models like CodeLlama threaten software engineering jobs.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Increased output leads to increased demand. If last week I could pump out 3 solid PRs that fixed issues in our product, then it will be expected that I pump out 20 PRs using AI in a week. Information Engineers are going to be in more demand than ever, the title is just going to change to Platform Engineering because that's the level we will be expected to operate at with the new tooling. This is why there's a multitude of LLM frontends being released every week. That is no longer skilled labor and an elementary school child with enough time can do it. But building an entire platform that can scale and has 5 9's uptime?
When an AI can do that, then we panic.