Job Postings for Software Engineers Are Rapidly Rising | Hacker News

A Hacker News thread says AI coding tools are useful for small functions, boilerplate, and prototypes, but not enough to build large systems on their own.

The poster argues human engineers are still needed to define boundaries, manage cohesion and coupling, and keep codebases from becoming brittle.

Commenters agree current LLMs often produce impressive demos rather than robust software, even as the tools improve quickly.

The debate centers on whether AI will replace software engineers or mostly shift their work toward architecture, decomposition, and oversight.