Will AI replace software engineers? It depends on who you ask

Will AI replace software engineers? It depends on who you ask

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Artificial intelligence (AI) will soon be performing the essential tasks of software engineers — or so the experts say.

Sarah Friar, chief financial officer for OpenAI, proclaimed AI-as-software-engineer’s emerging role at a recent Goldman Sachs conference. OpenAI’s pending AI agent, called A-SWE (Agentic Software Engineer), “is not just augmenting the current software engineers in your workforce, but instead is literally an agentic software engineer that can build…

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