I'm curious to connect with any other software engineering professionals. The excitement around AI is great and I love working with all these new AI code assist tools has honestly unlocked my ability to produce more features and more projects without help from other humans. My main concern though, is the general hype being parroted about "software engineering is dead," seems tripe, even dangerous. There are very large optics campaigns out there to sell AI services, and the actual capabilities of these new tools don't match the hype. Don't get me wrong, they're amazing to work with, but they aren't replacing the need for people anytime soon. I've found that while the coding agents out there today can write lots of code, fast. They aren't very good at software engineering as anything more than a junior engineer. They can be controlled and channeled into writing good code and can make very quick work of small tasks or from-scratch small examples. I've found them useful in other capacities too. They feel very much like highly energetic yet very junior coders. They make a lot of mistakes and need to be monitored in order to produce good results. Does anyone else relate to this? Are there any other software engineering professionals in this group? What do you think?

When I'm in ChatGPT (my personal assistant), I am stern. Authoritative. If not, It will only tell you what you want to hear. Like the CEO, he does not have time for sugar coated answers and feel good solutions. I.E. Your task is too .......Take on the role of a.......I expect these results.....NO, thats wrong, re-evaluate and perform a deeper analysis that will bring results that will meet my expectations and follow my instructions very carefully. If you have any questions, ask, do not assume anything. When I'm in CLAUDE (my technical expert) we work symbiotically. I.E. Have a look at this Code. Identify any errors and inconsistencies and report back to me with potential solutions for my review. Sternness not necessary, it's mutual respect. An intelligent conversation with a trusted expert. With GROK (my research assistant) I'm like, ummm, would it be ok if, like, you went through the steps of installing python on my new laptop? I am kind of slow so if you would give me step by step instructions click by click, I would greatly appreciate it. And if it's OK with you, would you please stop after every step and not proceed to the next step until I say next, would that be OK? I am so sorry, I am just not as fast as I used to be at all this stuff. You are such an awesome teacher. I AM TELLING YOU! GROK will shut you down in a heartbeat if you raise your voice. Certain words that show frustration and any disrespect will shut down the chat in a heartbeat. I am positive that Elon Musk has specifically told the dev team to program certain rules into the algorithm. He does it on purpose. Especially on free accounts. perplexity? stay away from it. It is spyware (IMHO) and has infected every device I have ever tried it on. As soon as I deleted it, everything went back to normal. (Think about it, why do they give its $20 a month service away for free for a year...on a regular basis? I know why, it aint good). Grok blows away perplexity anyway, you just have to play nice. LOL