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		sss111 on Dec 20, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB 3 to 5 years, max. Traditional coding is going to be dead in the water. Optimistically, the junior SWE job will evolve but more realistically dedicated AI-based programming agents will end demand for Junior SWEs

lagrange77 on Dec 20, 2024 [–]

Which implies that a few years later they will not become senior SWEs either.

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