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I'm a developer and honestly ChatGPT and GitHub copilot handle 90 percent of the frontend/templates and 40 percent of my code is now somehow enriched by ai. It'

• eulers_secret 4y ago
  Exactly! These tools are force multipliers. 1 dev can do the work of 3. If this is the case, a business should absolutely lay off 2/3 of their eng staff. If they don’t, their competitors will and then will eat their lunch! No more lazy devs, they should be at their desks working all 8 required hours as they agreed to in their contract. If they’re not: you have too many staff.
  • yamazakiwi 4y ago
    I'm assuming you sit at your desk and work 8 hours under supervision? Many great devs I know work more hours than 8 per day. Why do you have a bone to pick with Devs providing value disproportionate to time spent? You sound pretty happy that devs will have it worse in your proposal.
  • Archelaos 4y ago
    This would only be true if the demand were capped. Other scenarios are also conceivable: For example, if the same workers in this sector can produce for a third of the price, demand may perhaps increase by more than three times and the number of workers would have to increase accordingly, not decrease.
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  • marstall 4y ago
    another way of looking at it: writing software becomes cheaper, so software becomes more accessible in more parts of the world - leading to more demand for more kinds of software, and more developers needed.