Ege Erdil, Matthew Barnett, Tamay Besiroglu May 30, 2025 With every passing month, AI models get better at most tasks that a software engineer does in their job. Yet for all these gains, today’s models only assist human engineers, falling far short of automating their job completely. What will it take to build AIs that can fully replace software engineers, and why aren’t we there yet? Current AIs present something of a paradox. Their performance on narrow coding tasks already exceeds that of mos...