Any other Software Engineering professionals in here?

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?

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