SOFTWARE ENGINEERING WITH LLMS IN 2025: REALITY CHECK

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Executives at AI infrastructure companies have made bold claims about the technology, but developers often find these claims to fall spectacularly flat. This article looks at how AI is used within the tech industry to see why founders/CEOs are more bullish than devs about AI tools, how widespread usage is among developers, how much time AI tools really save, and more. Many seasoned software engineers were skeptical about AI tools until very recently - now, most are surprisingly enthusiastic and see these tools as a change that will reshape software development.