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Will AI replace software engineers?
All 7 moments we cut that answer this say the job changes. Jad Naous said on a16z Podcast (Oct 16, 2026) that engineers use agents to split up work and still review and consolidate the results. Yann LeCun said on Unsupervised Learning (May 15, 2026) that software engineers move up a level of abstraction, deciding what to build while AI handles more programming.
The job changes7
AI cut a complex data-lake project from six months to ten days
“And that took maybe about 10 days. In previous days, that would have taken maybe about six months for a single person.”
Jad NaousCEO, Grepr24:04 Experienced engineers get more leverage from coding agents
“the more complexity that your brain can handle, the more you can break down the tasks and kind of assign them”
Jad NaousCEO, Grepr13:34 Engineers should manage agents, not blindly ship their code
“so I think the role that most people are now taking with this coding agency is that of an engineering manager.”
Guillermo RauchFounder & CEO, Vercel13:04 Vercel hires for the ability to direct many agents
“I'm actually looking for your ability to commandeer swaths of agents and really get leverage back from this new ecosystem.”
Guillermo RauchFounder & CEO, Vercel1:17:29 Leaders must explain when their product vision has changed
“it takes courage to do that because you have to sit in front of your company and you have to tell them with a straight face and conviction”
Guillermo RauchFounder & CEO, Vercel1:08:50 Uber is shifting from diff counts to feature velocity
“we are internally talking about not necessarily just diff velocity but feature velocity”
Uday Kiran MedisettyDistinguished Engineer, Uber1:24:06 LLMs excel only where language is the substrate of reasoning
“LLMs are good programmers they're not software architects they're not computer scientists right but they can program for us”
Yann LeCunFormer Chief AI Scientist, Meta37:26
Each moment is a few minutes of a long interview, cut by Real Alpha and filed under how it answers by a model that read its claim and quote. Open a moment for its full transcript. Last moment added Oct 20, 2026.