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Not sure I quite get the point of the article. Sure, you won't capture $100k/year/dev. But if you capture $2k/year/dev, and you replace every dev in the world..
by tines 1y ago
Not sure I quite get the point of the article. Sure, you won't capture $100k/year/dev. But if you capture $2k/year/dev, and you replace every dev in the world... that's the goal right?
- gh0stcat 1y agoI don't think the value stacks like that. Hiring 10 low level workers that you can pay 1/10th the salary to replace one higher level worker doesn't work.
- RedOrZed 1y agoSure it does! Let me just hire 9 women for 1 month...
- aerostable_slug 1y agoThey're saying expectations that AI revenues will equal HR expenditures, like you can take the funds from one column to the other, are wrong-headed. That makes sense to me.
- tines 1y agoI agree, but that doesn't have to be true for investors to be salivating, is my point.
- blibble 1y agothat $2k won't last long as you will never maintain a margin on a service like that employee salaries are high because your competitors can't spawn 50000 into existence by pushing a button competition in the industry will destroy its own margins, and then its own customer base very quickly soon after followed by the economies of the countries they're present in the whole thing is a capitalism self destruct button, for entire economies