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AstroBen 11 hours ago

It's pretty clear that if AI delivers on its promise it'll decimate the income of all but the top 1% developers

Labor is worth less, capital and equity ownership make more or the same

simonw 9 hours ago | parent [-]

I don't think that's a forgone conclusion yet.

I continue to hope that we see the opposite effect: the drop of cost in software development drives massively increased demand for both software and our services.

I wrote about that here: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/8/llm-predictions-for-202...

AstroBen 8 hours ago | parent [-]

I keep flip-flopping between being optimistic and pessimistic on this, but yeah we just need to wait and see