# Developers, Don't Despair, Big Tech and AI Hype is off the Rails Again
Many software engineers seem to be more worried than usual that the AI agents are coming, which I find saddening and infuriating at the same time. I'll quickly break down the good, bad, and ugly for you.
## Fever Pitch Hype
I think I'm smelling blood in the water for these generative AI companies, because the hype train is currently totally off the rails again, this time with especially absurd and outlandish claims. This latest round follows a very linear sequence of events:
1. Mark Zuckerberg appeared on Joe Rogan in Jan 2025, claiming by year's end Meta will have an AI mid-level software engineer.
2. Shortly after, Sam Altman appeared boasting that soon OpenAI will have a $20k/month PhD level super coder agent.
3. Not wanting to be left out, Dario Amodei one-upped them claiming within 3 - 6 months AI will write 90% of all code, and within 12 months 100% of all code.
4. Getting the last word in, OpenAI made another appearance assuring us that by year's end they will replace all senior staff level software engineers.
Do these people even hear themselves? I know not to expect any better, because as it turns out, highly manipulative and self-serving individuals will blurt out all sorts of ridiculous bs when tens of billions in investor funds are at stake. The current batch of frontier LLMs can barely churn out 100+ line snippets of usable and clean Rust code, and they want me to believe in one upgrade they're going to be hammering out large enterprise-level, secure, polished, and production-ready systems?
matt-cicero•3h ago
Many software engineers seem to be more worried than usual that the AI agents are coming, which I find saddening and infuriating at the same time. I'll quickly break down the good, bad, and ugly for you.
## Fever Pitch Hype
I think I'm smelling blood in the water for these generative AI companies, because the hype train is currently totally off the rails again, this time with especially absurd and outlandish claims. This latest round follows a very linear sequence of events:
1. Mark Zuckerberg appeared on Joe Rogan in Jan 2025, claiming by year's end Meta will have an AI mid-level software engineer. 2. Shortly after, Sam Altman appeared boasting that soon OpenAI will have a $20k/month PhD level super coder agent. 3. Not wanting to be left out, Dario Amodei one-upped them claiming within 3 - 6 months AI will write 90% of all code, and within 12 months 100% of all code. 4. Getting the last word in, OpenAI made another appearance assuring us that by year's end they will replace all senior staff level software engineers.
Do these people even hear themselves? I know not to expect any better, because as it turns out, highly manipulative and self-serving individuals will blurt out all sorts of ridiculous bs when tens of billions in investor funds are at stake. The current batch of frontier LLMs can barely churn out 100+ line snippets of usable and clean Rust code, and they want me to believe in one upgrade they're going to be hammering out large enterprise-level, secure, polished, and production-ready systems?
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