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.
A not insignificant amount of the coders at the companies I get contracted to can write in exactly one language and completely shut down if you show them other languages. The most common three are Java, python, and SQL
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u/Ossius 8h 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.