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Maybe thirty four years later. I don't think there's AI to gather requirements, talk to people, understand a problem and produce code. That's kinda general inte

Maybe thirty four years later. I don't think there's AI to gather requirements, talk to people, understand a problem and produce code. That's kinda general intelligence level AI. But this thing can possibly make devs work easier and if it's good enough maybe smaller teams can produce more.

sitkack 5y ago
This will allow for a D or C level coder to be a B/B- coder which is great, quality goes up. But corps will use this to depress wages and finally be able to create that wonderous unicorn of completely fungible coder. This kind of tooling is akin to the crossbow. It will allow for less skilled folks to push out code that is like other code at great speed. A copy pasta accelerator if you will.
- yellowfish 5y ago
  Is that a bad thing? sw-developers are grossly overpaid to the point it's damaging
  - Sholmesy 5y ago
    Grossly overpaid for effort/comparison to other wages/industries. Adequately paid for value captured (hence why companies are willing to pay for them at this rate). Not a moral statement, but this gives more tools to those in power.
  - xeromal 5y ago
    I tend to think like you. Somehow we convinced businesses that a mostly-blue collar job gets paid white collar salary but I've been told that SW-engineers aren't overpaid. Most people are just very underpaid. What are your thoughts on that? I can lean that way just because I have a genius mechanical engineer friend who only makes 60k in his 30s.
    - yellowfish 5y ago
      I think it's easier to bring people down to the same level rather then bringing them up to it
  - booleandilemma 5y ago
    Do you think project managers are overpaid too?
  - nyghtly 5y ago
    If the reduction of developer wages led to the increase of wages for other workers, sure. But of course that won't happen. The reduction of wages for any class of worker will simply lead to further consolidation of wealth.
  - grumple 5y ago
    We each produce 1MM+ in actual revenue per year but paying us 100k+ is too much?

sitkack 5y ago

This will allow for a D or C level coder to be a B/B- coder which is great, quality goes up. But corps will use this to depress wages and finally be able to create that wonderous unicorn of completely fungible coder. This kind of tooling is akin to the crossbow. It will allow for less skilled folks to push out code that is like other code at great speed. A copy pasta accelerator if you will.

yellowfish 5y ago
Is that a bad thing? sw-developers are grossly overpaid to the point it's damaging
- Sholmesy 5y ago
  Grossly overpaid for effort/comparison to other wages/industries. Adequately paid for value captured (hence why companies are willing to pay for them at this rate). Not a moral statement, but this gives more tools to those in power.
- xeromal 5y ago
  I tend to think like you. Somehow we convinced businesses that a mostly-blue collar job gets paid white collar salary but I've been told that SW-engineers aren't overpaid. Most people are just very underpaid. What are your thoughts on that? I can lean that way just because I have a genius mechanical engineer friend who only makes 60k in his 30s.
  - yellowfish 5y ago
    I think it's easier to bring people down to the same level rather then bringing them up to it
- booleandilemma 5y ago
  Do you think project managers are overpaid too?
- nyghtly 5y ago
  If the reduction of developer wages led to the increase of wages for other workers, sure. But of course that won't happen. The reduction of wages for any class of worker will simply lead to further consolidation of wealth.
- grumple 5y ago
  We each produce 1MM+ in actual revenue per year but paying us 100k+ is too much?