Software engineers worry about AI replacing their full-stack work
11 posts across 4 communities in the last 60 days; 73% from r/cscareerquestions.
“Seriously, I do not get why companies nowadays would like to have a first preliminary live coding interview as we know now AI and machine are writing codes so much better than us. What does an interview like this gives meaning to the company? I bet those Head of Department or…”
“How did it go? Did you have to pay for the AI tokens out of your pocket for the interview? I did not get the job (they said they hired someone else before I got to the next stage). The interview itself went alright. It was 3 parts, AI coding. I didn't write any code but…”
“I just got out of an interview where the test was about going through some app code. The manager told me that every dev had a claude licence and the app was entirely generated by AI. The app was working as intended, so yeah I suppose you don't have to think too much about the…”
Multiple posts express concern among software engineers regarding the potential for artificial intelligence to automate or replace their roles, particularly in full-stack development. One post specifically mentions that someone will need to run AI queries and another suggests a fear of live coding interviews.
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“Seriously, I do not get why companies nowadays would like to have a first preliminary live coding interview as we know now AI and machine are writing codes so much better than us. What does an interview like this gives meaning to the company? I…”
“How did it go? Did you have to pay for the AI tokens out of your pocket for the interview? I did not get the job (they said they hired someone else before I got to the next stage). The interview itself went alright. It was 3 parts, AI coding. I didn't write any code but interviewer was more interested in my thought process. Then I had to read some javascript code and spot the issues. Then he asked me a small system design question about to speed up the question he asked me in the technical s”
“I just got out of an interview where the test was about going through some app code. The manager told me that every dev had a claude licence and the app was entirely generated by AI. The app was working as intended, so yeah I suppose you don't have to think too much about the fact that what took a year from a team of several people will now take a lot less effort to do. I personnaly think that the SaaS business is going to crash because most companies need a web app that covers basics functi”
“So last week I was tinkering with how to change up our technical interview round. For the last few years we’ve been doing a small take home followed by a live coding session where we add a new requirement, minimal AI assistance allowed. However, in our company pretty much everyone is writing 100% of code using Claude now, so although we did used to get good signal from that test, it no longer feels representative of the day to day job developers are doing. I designed a new assessment which I cas”
“Bro, you can literally ask AI to breakdown your code to you so you can understand it... Or you can just skip that part entirely and just vibe.”
“Yeah sometimes they ask what kind of code I write and I get halfway through a sentence before the term “distributed systems” makes their eyes glaze over. Other times they bring up AI writing code and I admit it writes all my code and is like having a team of juniors, and then they explain to me how I personally am killing the world with AI or how I definitely won’t have a job in a year. I don’t care. Just gonna keep on sitting here sipping my iced coffee and enjoying making six figures while wor”
“I dunno, I work at Microsoft, Google, and Meta, and we didn't have any of that.”
“Who do you think will run all these AI queries to do full stack work? You bet no customers.”
“Geez. It’s crazy what they expect. Lowkey terrified tho, this was my first ever live coding interview”