Why AI Won't Eliminate Software Engineering Jobs
techradar.pro, Thursday, April 17th, 2025
AI advances coding tools while engineering jobs remain secure
The past 12 months have seen remarkable advances in AI coding capabilities. To offer some perspective, there's a benchmark that measures performance on 500 real-world engineering problems derived from real world software projects. Early last year, state-of-the-art large language models (LLMs) solved only about 4% of these issues. With this momentum in AI coding agents now drawing significant media attention, I'm asked more frequently: 'Will this affect software engineering jobs?'