I’m sceptical

The models seem to still (claude opus 4.5) not get things right, and miss edge cases, and work code in a way that’s not very structured.

I use them daily, but I often have to rewrite a lot to reshape the codebase to a point where it makes sense to use the model again.

I’m sure they’ll continue to get better, but out of a job better in 5 years? I’m not betting on it.

Ya, you have to shape your code base, not just that but get your AI to document your code base and come with some sort of pipeline to have different AI check things.

It’s fine to be skeptical, and I definitely hope I’m wrong, but it really is looking bad for SWEs who don’t start adopting at this point. It’s a bad bet in my opinion, at least have your F-u money built up in 5 if you aren’t going full in on it.