{"id":537747,"date":"2026-03-15T09:52:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T09:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/537747\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T09:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T09:52:12","slug":"perplexity-ai-ceo-aravind-srinivas-agrees-that-computer-science-is-gradually-returning-to-the-domain-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/537747\/","title":{"rendered":"Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas agrees that Computer Science is gradually returning to the domain of\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/perplexity-ais-desi-ceo-aravind-srinivas-creates-a-new-billionaire-record.jpg\" alt=\"Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas agrees that Computer Science is gradually returning to the domain of\u2026\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity AI, added his weight to a growing conversation about what AI is doing to software engineering. On March 13, he quote-tweeted a post by physics and AI\/ML student @TheVixhal with two words: \u201cWell said.\u201d The original post, which racked up 15,000-plus likes and nearly a million views, argued that LLMs are quietly automating the grunt work of coding\u2014and in doing so, pulling computer science back toward its mathematical and physics-heavy roots.The idea isn\u2019t fringe. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has said the industry is 6 to 12 months from AI handling most of what software engineers currently do end-to-end. Some engineers at Anthropic, he noted, no longer write code at all. Replit\u2019s CEO put it more bluntly: the software engineering role, as currently defined, \u201csort of disappears.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>GitHub Copilot boost developers speed by 55%\u2014but the gains are uneven<\/p>\n<p>The data backs the shift. A 2023 Microsoft-run experiment found developers using GitHub Copilot completed tasks 55.8% faster. Anthropic\u2019s own AI Exposure Index puts programmers at roughly 75% task coverage by LLMs\u2014the highest of any profession tracked.<\/p>\n<p>Poll<\/p>\n<p>Do you believe AI will significantly replace software engineering jobs in the next year?<\/p>\n<p> What\u2019s changing isn\u2019t just speed. It\u2019s what engineers spend time thinking about. Boilerplate is increasingly off the table. The questions that remain\u2014how systems fail, what trade-offs to make, whether the architecture holds at scale\u2014are closer to physics and math than to typing syntax correctly.<\/p>\n<p>LLMs still hallucinate on complex system design, keeping senior engineers in demand<\/p>\n<p>Not everyone\u2019s convinced the transition is clean. Critics point out LLMs still stumble on novel, complex problems. Junior developers gain the most from these tools; senior engineers remain essential for verification and judgment calls. The \u201c6 to 12 months\u201d timeline Amodei floats applies to existing tasks, not the harder work of inventing new systems.Still, the direction of travel is clear enough that even Code.org\u2019s founder is rethinking CS education\u2014less syntax, more logical reasoning. \u201cCoding is dead,\u201d he said, adding, &#8220;Long live coding.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity AI, added his weight to a growing conversation about what AI is doing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,210307,210306,7397,276,277,49,48,7705,210308,7396,61],"class_list":["post-537747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-ai-automation-in-coding","tag-ai-in-software-engineering","tag-aravind-srinivas","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-github-copilot","tag-llms-and-coding","tag-perplexity-ai","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}