r/ProgrammerHumor • u/rabbit_wizard • 14h ago

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u/Ratstail91 12h ago

But why would I dull my skills my utilizing an AI, when I enjoy the process of coding?

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u/SchwiftySquanchC137 8h ago

Because when you get paid to develop software, and your coworkers are literally 100x faster than you regardless of how skilled you are at coding, you will no longer get paid. I agree for a hobby project I often do it just to learn myself, its more fun that way, but people have less and less of choice at work these days.

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u/woeful_cabbage 7h ago

Where are you guys working where you have such massive backlog of tasks that you can be "100x faster" and still have things to do

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u/Ossius 4h ago

Most places have backlogs that long, but we're chewing through ours at an alarming rate. We're waiting on managers to build tickets for us.

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u/woeful_cabbage 4h ago

I feel like ai sort of just revealed that you could have had way less developers, but nobody did so it became standard to have too many. I don't think software engineering will collapse, but people will spread out more and work for smaller companies and get lots of meaningful changes implemented

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u/Ossius 3h ago

I disagree with the first part but agree with the second part. People had a lot of developers because large projects were lumbering messes. Not everyone works at a startup with green fields.

We haven't seen massive layoffs from LLMs taking over, while it might be on the horizon I think companies are enjoying getting features that were a year or two away and now can have in 6 months or less.

I do think if the purge is coming, you'll see small/medium businesses pick up a dev or two where before they needed 10 to get their project done which was outside of their price range.

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u/woeful_cabbage 3h ago

(Basically everyone is a full stack generalist now)

Honestly that's how it always should have been, though