alt Hacker NewsAstra, Fable, Opus 5.5 are drastically beyond the capabilities of the median software developer. It's not remotely close.
The bottom 2/3 of the human market is entirely dead. Their jobs are gone (AI-shored) they just haven't all gotten the forced retirement or pink slips yet, while they click a few more prompts for a few more pay checks. The frontier pushing forward will knock out most of the remaining top 1/3 without breaking a sweat over the next few years. The really good developers will graduate into babysitting AI as managers.
It is legitimately sad, it's millions of high paying jobs just in the US alone. It's going to be brutal on the housing market. Automation came for another field.
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Do you, personally, have a plan for the future? Like what are you doing about this, or are you hoping to be in the 1%?
I don't get how anyone actively using AI can believe this. Astra sucks ass.
Software engineering isn't unique, if this is true then it's 99% of all white collar work. Those same software engineers are going to help automate every other job on their way out.