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lelanthranyesterday at 6:44 PM2 repliesview on HN

> With AI, it is like coding is on GOD mode and sure I can bang out anything I want, but so can anyone else and it just doesn't feel like an accomplishment.

That's the thing - prompting is lower-skill work than actually writing code.

Now that actually writing code has less value than prompting, and prompting is lower skill than writing code, in what world do you think that the pay will remain the same?


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mbestoyesterday at 9:35 PM

> Now that actually writing code has less value than prompting, and prompting is lower skill than writing code, in what world do you think that the pay will remain the same?

Don't you think people said the same thing C and Python? Isn't Python a lower skill than C for example?

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metaltyphoonyesterday at 8:23 PM

> in what world do you think that the pay will remain the same?

It can, but now you output must be a min of 2x.

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