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Software development now costs less than than the wage of a minimum wage worker

2 points| ghuntley | 2 days ago |ghuntley.com

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jalapenos|2 days ago

I'm not sure if there's a name for this yet, perhaps "AI shit-eating grin artistry".

But the way you do it is: try to make the most aggressive, gleeful statements about people losing or will be losing their jobs, and in fact entire careers.

Make it as obnoxious as you and your AI can make it. Make references to burger flippers being more valuable than software engineers.

Make really flippant comparisons that deliberately and dishonestly mischaracterise the role. Refer to nonsense like LOC output rate as a proxy for value, or point at things like its ability to clone quickly as if that were where value comes from.

And then of course, double down at every criticism of the position.

ghuntley|2 days ago

there’s a difference between software development and software engineering. everyone is a software developer now, engineering is hard - always has, always will be but the skills to be an engineer are now very different.

http://ghuntley.com/loop