randy5235's comments

Rich investors send money to your companies bank account. Upper management then pays as little as they can get away with. You might have “shares” in your company that gain value in an “exit” event, but have you looked at how those payout structures are arranged? Mostly the investors and “founders” are paid out first with great returns. What little is left gets divided up amongst the rest.

What makes you feel that a union wouldn’t represent your interests? Do you really believe that corporations will continue paying us well any longer than they absolutely have to? As soon as an ai or low code split comes along that can replace junior and mid level engineers, those jobs will get harder and harder to find. The rest of us will have to shoulder the responsibility of “cleaning” after those solutions and the additional work of not having a “pipeline” to continue growing better software engineers.

Software engineers, like most workers, are exploited. Do you think that companies pay us well out of the goodness of their hearts? As soon as they can find a way to replace us or pay us less, they will. Currently they have to pay us well and give good benefits, otherwise we will move along to somewhere that will. The more likely scenario, is that they will start replacing the "non 10x" developers with AI soon. This may allow the 10x to demand a salary bump, but it also means that they will be cleaning up after AI and shouldering all of the extra work so it probably will be a net loss for most.

I can't argue with this assertion. Can we start discussing how to correct this a bit. I have no issue with corporations reaping profits from open source software but would love to see more developers benefiting directly.