Will AI replace Software Engineers? Do not hold your breath

CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Germany 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 s oftware jobs will be exclusively conducted by LLMs, and the software industry will cease to exist. But soft ware engineering is much more than producing code--notably, maintaining large software and keeping it reliable is a major part of soft ware engineering, which LLMs are not yet capable of. Do not hold your breath. This includes automated code generation from natural language descriptions and automated remediation of code issues [5, 10].