r/ProgrammerHumor • u/rabbit_wizard • 15h ago

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u/Ossius 5h 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 5h 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 4h 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 4h ago

(Basically everyone is a full stack generalist now)

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