alt Hacker NewsThe outcome is the same, though
Fewer developers required to achieve the same things means a lot of people are going to be unemployed
It also means that the people who remain will likely be paid less. Why would you pay a senior salary when you could pay a junior salary plus AI subscription and get "the same result"?
I think Software Devs are in for a rough time. I've been doing this for 15 years now, and I'm not looking forward to it. I'm honestly thinking about re-skilling to a different industry. Even if it pays less, it's probably worth it to sit out this shitshow.
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nyantaro1 • yesterday at 4:32 PM
I agree with most of your take, but I don't really think those left are going to be paid less. I am not one of them, but I don't see why they would be paid less.
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> Fewer developers required to achieve the same things means a lot of people are going to be unemployed
I don’t think that's a foregone conclusion. Every company I’ve worked for has had a huge list of tasks we'd do if we had more engineering resources. There's never been a shortage of worthwhile things we could do, it's always been ruthless prioritization to find the 10% of tasks that are the most important.
Look up Jevons' Paradox. This is a thing that has happened a bunch of times before.