It's a joke obviously, but the deeper point is context is extremely important. In the pre-AI days, we'd budget 3 months for someone to get the context of the codebase and the product. These days, it's still 2-4 weeks. You can have someone extremely skilled spread out on multiple projects and they'd do a terrible job. Whatever low hanging fruit is all taken up by AI.
The exception I've seen so far is something like devops or infra. Where the person has done their job whenever nothing goes wrong. People are happy to pay monthly for nothing going wrong.
muzani|7 months ago
The exception I've seen so far is something like devops or infra. Where the person has done their job whenever nothing goes wrong. People are happy to pay monthly for nothing going wrong.