About whether software engineers should worry about losing their jobs to AI.
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Yes 46 (33%)Not sure 45 (32%)No 50 (35%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About whether software engineers should worry about losing their jobs to AI.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Whenever I get worried about this I comb through our ticket tracker and see that ~0% of them can be implemented by AI as it exists today. Once somebody cracks the memory problem and ships an agent that progressively understands the business and the codebase, then I'll start worrying. But context limitation is fundamental to the technology in its current form and the value of SWEs is to turn the bigger picture into a functioning product.