About how software engineers feel about AI doing a large share of their work.
Has this happened?
Yes 61 (58%)Not sure 18 (17%)No 26 (25%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About how software engineers feel about AI doing a large share of their work.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
I'd be very excited if AI could do my work. I could manage the AI and be more productive. Right now AI hallucinates a lot and I end up doing more work than I need to cleaning up and undoing random crap it generates.