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by sebzim4500 1288 days ago
The question wasn't just about ChatGPT though. If the SOTA improves as much in the next decade as it has in the last decade (for from a guarantee of course), it will be hard for any tech company to justify having thousands of developers.
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Yes.

But in my experience, a small and highly skilled team already outcompetes these armies right now.

Working as an "IT consultant" after a 2 week bootstrap course has always been unsustainable. We will likely get rid of 90% of the current "software engineers" without any meaningful reduction in productivity.