Will AI replace Software Engineers? Do not hold your breath

Abhik Roychoudhury; Andreas Zeller

Will AI replace Software Engineers? Do not hold your breath

Software Engineering 2025-03-04 v2 Artificial Intelligence

Authors: Abhik Roychoudhury , Andreas Zeller

Abstract

Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology such as Large Language Models (LLMs) have become extremely popular in creating code. This has led to the conjecture that future software jobs will be exclusively conducted by LLMs, and the software industry will cease to exist. But software engineering is much more than producing code -- notably, \emph{maintaining} large software and keeping it reliable is a major part of software engineering, which LLMs are not yet capable of.

Keywords

code generation large language model artificial intelligence

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@article{arxiv.2502.20429,
  title  = {Will AI replace Software Engineers? Do not hold your breath},
  author = {Abhik Roychoudhury and Andreas Zeller},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.20429},
  year   = {2025}
}

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