Viral take: does AI now handle most tasks software engineers used to do?
tlakomy · x · 2026-10-17
tlakomy asks whether we can all agree at this point that AI can do the vast majority of tasks software engineers used to do — a classic debate-starter on AI's impact on programming jobs.
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