Mark Zuckerberg: AI May Soon Replace Mid-Level Engineers at Meta

Techstory ^ | 01 13 2025 | Harikrishnan A

[sten]

if AIs take over our mid level positions then that’s the end of the tech sector in America.

juniors won’t be able to get into the field as AIs will have taken all that work.

we’ve been stagnant for 20+ yrs... and it’s only getting worse.

[vivenne]

Indeed. It could happen.

[roadcat]

Good! Artificial Intelligence has got to be better than actual ignorance.

I love that message, so true! 50 years ago I was an applications software programmer. Surrounded by idiots who couldn't program worth a damn. They relied heavily on subroutines that others wrote. Resulting in sluggish programs that often failed because of missing conditions that weren't tested. I would look at programs with millions of lines of code and reduce it to mere thousands. Ignorant people coding results in sluggish failing programs.

AI is more efficient than ignorant programmers. But still not as good as a clever knowledgeable programmer. I moved on from applications programming to systems level programming and doing machine level programs. Fewer ignorant people to deal with. AI is good, good people can still keep engineering jobs. Anyone can code. Also, anyone can create gibberish. Smart people can keep their jobs. (The above written by a human, not AI.)

[roadcat]

... which will be harder to counter since very few people will have any idea how the code works, or even where to look?

Excellent point. That's the case in many non-computing areas. People have no clue how simple things work, so they're heavily dependent on "experts" to bail them out. "Experts" can mean a local 10-year-old child. Example, setting the time on a VCR or other gadget. Half the people are stupid now, and half are clever.

Clever people will still be in demand to fix hacked code, as AI can't be self-healing yet because it can't realize the problem exists.

[minnesota_bound]

#3 He lost $54 billion and counting with his facebook metaverse virtual reality headgear disaster. At least 11,000 people have lost their jobs at that company but not him. The one who created the fiasco. 13% of its workforce. Plus $200 billion in stock loses last year.
He should have been fired long ago before it ever reached that point.

[sasquatch]

Here’s a contrast. R&D at hp developed a hand held calculator
named the hp-35. (it had 35 keys) Marketing reported that it shouldn’t be manufactured. Bill Hewlett said ‘do it’.
It was introduced in ‘72. The rest is history.