About how software engineers can future-proof careers as LLMs generate working code.
Has this happened?
Yes 66 (54%)Not sure 23 (19%)No 34 (28%)
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About how software engineers can future-proof careers as LLMs generate working code.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
there's a lot more involved in senior dev work beyond producing code that works.
if the stakeholders knew how to do what they needed to build and how, then they could use LLMs, but translating complex requirements into code is something that these tools are not even close to cracking.