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The comparison isn't unfair, but the flip side of that is that a crappy consultant with the right confidence and good soft skills can make several hundred thous

The comparison isn't unfair, but the flip side of that is that a crappy consultant with the right confidence and good soft skills can make several hundred thousand dollars a year in this industry. I'd say AI is on a pretty good career track for itself. Just this morning my CTO was crowing about how he was able to use Claude to modify the UI of one of our internal dev tools. He absolutely cannot wait to start replacing devs with AI. Nobody wanted to hear it back when software development was easy street, but maybe we should have unionized after all...

palmotea 1y ago
> Just this morning my CTO was crowing about how he was able to use Claude to modify the UI of one of our internal dev tools. He absolutely cannot wait to start replacing devs with AI. > Nobody wanted to hear it back when software development was easy street, but maybe we should have unionized after all... Thanks rugged libertarian individualists! Software engineering is full of dumb people who think they're sooooo clever.