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"The squirrel can do my job and more? It can do five years of my work in a month? For only $20k? Pssh, but I bet it copied someone's homework." Developer salar
by echelon 9mo ago
"The squirrel can do my job and more? It can do five years of my work in a month? For only $20k? Pssh, but I bet it copied someone's homework."
Developer salaries are about to tank.
This is the end of the line. People are just in denial.
Soon companies will hire the squirrel instead of you. And the squirrel will transform into enormous infrastructure we can't afford ourselves.
"One mega squirrel to implement your own operating system overnight. Just $100k."
It's going to be out of the reach of humans / ICs soon. Purely industrial. And all innovation will accrue to the capital holders.
Open weights models are our only hope of keeping a foot in the door.
- esafak 9mo agoIF you want the code to be reviewed and maintained you still need a developer. A developer can craft a better spec.
- Ronsenshi 9mo agoThis is really questionable outcome. So you'll have your own custom OS riddled with holes that AI won't be capable of fixing because the context and complexity became so high that running any small bug fix would cost thousands of dollars in tokens. Is this how tech field ends? Overengineered brittle black-box monstrosities that nobody understands because important thing for business was "it does A, B, and C" and it doesn't matter how.