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The scenario you describe leads to a massive productivity boost for some engineers and no work left for the rest. Or in other words: The profit share of labour
by jcfrei 1y ago
The scenario you describe leads to a massive productivity boost for some engineers and no work left for the rest. Or in other words: The profit share of labour compared to capital becomes even smaller. Meaning an even more skewed income distribution, where a few make millions and the rest of the currently employed software engineers / lawyers, etc will become bartenders or greeters at walmart.
- eranation 1y agoWhen backlogs run dry and users don’t come up with feature requests / bugs faster than humans + AI can tackle. Yes. Until then, adding one more engineer (with AI) will have a better ROI than firing one. Engineers who are purist and refuse to use AI, might end up with a wake up call. But they are smart, they’ll adapt too.