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> How much of a productivity increase is that? Well jeepers, if you’re only doing 1/5th the work, then you are… punches buttons on calculator watch… five times
by kibwen 2y ago
> How much of a productivity increase is that? Well jeepers, if you’re only doing 1/5th the work, then you are… punches buttons on calculator watch… five times as productive.
Cool, so I'm going to make five times more money? What's that you say, I'm not? So who is going to be harvesting the profits, then?
- theultdev 2y agoIf you're 5x more productive from AI, you can do 5x less effort if you feel your previous productivity was sufficient for the current pay.
- fragmede 2y agoIt's a pretty good time to be a contractor, as long as you negotiate getting paid per project/milestone and not by the hour. What used to take three days now takes one, and you can use the extra time to book more clients.
- efs24 2y agoYou will get paid 5x as much… assuming you are the only developer that uses this and the market for engineers is rational. However those other developers are going to be 5x as productive too so your rate should stay the same. The company that pays you will get more code for less money and so they would make more profit if they are the only company taking advantage of this. But all companies will start to produce software at a lower cost so their profits per line of code will be squeezed to where they are now. You will spend a lot less time writing boiler plate and searching docs or stack overflow. That frees you up to work on real problems and since you’ll be able to create products with less cost per line of code you could potentially compete with your own offerings. That’s my take anyway.