A software engineer asks on Hacker News which industries are actually replacing SWEs with AI, noting that LLMs are not yet capable of independent production-grade work despite widespread claims that engineers will soon be obsolete.
At Sequoia Ascent 2026, Andrej Karpathy argued LLMs enable new horizons beyond speeding up existing tasks, like fully LLM-native apps and knowledge bases impossible with classical code. He also discussed the "jaggedness" of LLM capabilities and the emerging agent-native economy splitting products into sensors, actuators, and logic.