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> AI models don't replace compilers, they replace software developers.

No, they replace the need for a precise description of what you want the computer to do by a mechanism that's really good to fill in the gaps. But guesswork only takes you so far.

Is that not what software engineers do?
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They automate the guesswork about what the spec actually intended, so to say. They don't improve the quality of the guessing.