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Just need to keep interviewing more people. Ironically, AI might make (competent) devs more valuable, not less, as lots of them will simply be filtered out beca
by satvikpendem 2y ago
Just need to keep interviewing more people. Ironically, AI might make (competent) devs more valuable, not less, as lots of them will simply be filtered out because they use AI as a crutch, thus the overall pool of software engineers decreases (and supply is constantly increasing). It's akin to the COBOL situation at banks, they don't have enough competent COBOL devs (as new devs don't learn the language and older ones die off) so they need to pay out the ass to get them to work on their systems.
- mhast 2y agoThis is s side comment, but banks don't actually pay out the ass to get people to work on COBOL. That's a myth. They actually just pay people (sometimes programmers, sometimes not) to learn COBOL. (And pay them fairly unconpetetive salaries, because COBOL is not really all that useful.) They do pay a lot of money to the people who program COBOL and maintain their archaic IBM mainframes. But that's mostly because it's basically a giant proprietary stack (hardware-OS-softare).
- satvikpendem 2y ago> They do pay a lot of money to the people who program COBOL and maintain their archaic IBM mainframes. But that's mostly because it's basically a giant proprietary stack (hardware-OS-softare). I meant more so this.