I have been pondering whether I am a fool to continue to go it as an employee in the age of AI.

Buttons840 36 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I wonder how much companies would pay people to NOT replicate their products. Like, if I'm just hacking around with my LLM, and am approaching a near 100% drop-in replacement for the entire Atlassian suite--how much would they pay me to NOT do that? Is that worth 1 livable wage to them?

There's an alternate employment arrangement...

	▲	causal 5 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		The install base is worth way more than the software

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flir an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It was never the coding that was hard, it was always the marketing.

	▲	prmph 27 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The coding is hard, unless by coding you mean slapping together CRUD forms. Many businesses are undone or fail to grow properly by neglecting this. This refrain that everything about starting a software business is hard except the coding needs to die. If the coding was nothing, every good marketing guy could go solo and start large software businesses. It does not happen. You mostly see successful technical founders, or usually a marriage of technical and business cofounders. Finding a fit between the viable business opportunities and the tech to address it is what's what, and requires several skills: technical, marketing, communication, product design, etc.
	▲	jaynetics an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		At least for us dev types.
	▲	random_cat_8745 an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		and infrastructure, it can be costly

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esseph an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Might be just as bad, possibly worse, if you aren't BigCo.