| ▲ | DrewADesign a day ago | ||||||||||||||||
Yeah. I’ve been saying that for a while (and switched fields entirely.) People were getting hung up on the idea that an LLM could not truly replace a developer, and that’s true, but it doesn’t matter. For the job market to be severely impacted, you just need to reduce the number of people required to do the parts of the job that LLMs suck at, and that only requires increased efficiency for existing developers. Even if your average developer is a measly 30% more efficient, that might create 20% less demand for developers, which would have a giant impact on demand, which would have a giant impact on wages for those still employed. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | swsieber a day ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
> Even if your average developer is a measly 30% more efficient, that might create 20% less demand for developers I mean it might. But I wouldn't rule out Jevon's paradox where the increased efficiency increases demand. Build more roads, congestion gets worse. Make developers more efficient, demand for developers increases. I wouldn't be surprised if demand for bespoke software goes up. | |||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | Wowfunhappy a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Did Object Oriented programming create less demand for developers? | |||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | zeroonetwothree a day ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
How much more efficient did compilers make developers? | |||||||||||||||||
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