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There are a lot of businesses that would love to hire engs but it's not profitable for them to do so. If devs were 10x more productive a lot of those businesses

• JohnFen 4y ago
  If a business wants to hire a dev but can't afford it, the dev being 10x more productive doesn't make them more affordable unless 1) They're hiring a contractor for 1/10th the hours, and 2) The contractor hasn't increased the per-hour fee to match the increased productivity I mean, sure, it can work out. But it's hard to see how it would do so in enough numbers to actually matter much. > Which is exactly why we have things like WordPress developers for small businesses Right, this is a solved problem. Businesses who don't need a full-time dev hires a contractor. That's how it's always worked. But contractors are expensive. So, either the contractors would reduce their fees (thus falsifying the assertion that AI would increase their pay rate) or those businesses will be paying the same as they've always paid but perhaps getting the finished work sooner than they otherwise would have (thus falsifying the assertion that AI would make this more affordable). Productivity gains can absolutely reduce costs and increase profits, but they do so by getting more work out of people while paying them the same as always.