Why AI Hasn't Replaced Engineers — And Won't Anytime Soon
AI writes most of the code now, layoffs are running at over 1,000 a day, and execs are saying they hired zero new engineers this year. Yet companies are quietly rehiring the same people they let go, agents that score 80% on SWE-bench drop to 12% on real industrial tasks, and the scarce resource has shifted from typing to judgment. This is a data-backed breakdown of why the discipline survives even as the job changes.
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