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Don't get your point. It's up to you to spend money to boost your productivity, nobody will force developers to use AI powered tools.

• philipphutterer 4y ago
  Perhaps when the standard of software development shifts towards using AI for everything?
• blagie 4y ago
  Let me explain the point: * There are hundreds of millions of people living for under $2/day. Coding was a pathway out of poverty. * There are billions of people with family incomes under $30/day. For those families, kids learning to code was a pathway to wealth. If tools to be productive cost money, it will go the same way as other domains of engineering, where you can't be productive without a significant investment. EDA tools to design electronics run $5k-$100k, and making an IC might have NREs of $100k. That places it squarely out-of-line as a career option for many.
  • 6gvONxR4sf7o 4y ago
    It’s the shovels vs spoons parable all over again.
    • blagie 4y ago
      It's a different parable. Everyone can afford a shovel. At one point in time, computers were limited to very wealthy folks, like Bill Gates. He learned to program by going to an exclusive private high school which had a computer, and later, in Harvard. He had a unique competitive advantage which allowed him to start Microsoft. A better parable is GNU/Linux/BSD/etc. versus Unix/VAX/etc. Unix cost thousands of dollars. The free alternatives were free. This allowed a whole generation of kids to learn, who didn't have Gates' resources. I wasn't in a private high school, and without Debian, I wouldn't have the life I have.