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anonnonyesterday at 7:53 AM2 repliesview on HN

> why would anyone want to fire me?

Because they can hire some "prompt engineer" to "steer the AI" for $30-50k instead of $150-$250k.


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codeboltyesterday at 12:42 PM

The difference between having a non-technical person and someone who is capable of understanding the code being generated and the systems running it is immense, and will continue to be so over the foreseeable future.

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ValentineCyesterday at 11:09 AM

Anyone that only costs $30k-50k would either be doing this part-time, or have some limit that prevented them from earning $150k-250k.

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