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by intelVISA 1186 days ago
> Companies are already bloated, imagine when they realize one overworked highly paid senior can replace 10 juniors.

That is already possible without AI and has been the case for a long time... the issue is nobody will stay to be that highly paid senior running entire projects because at that point you can just run your own shop and pocket the full profits.
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Art9681 1186 days ago
It also causes a "single point of failure". If that senior gets hit by a bus then what? Can the company afford to bring in another senior that will take ~6 months to become productive?

I'm not disagreeing with you. Im thinking of going solo myself.

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onemoresoop 1185 days ago
The biggest problem going solo is getting the projects/contracts. Now it will become even harder so one has to charge less and less to compete.
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LouisSayers 1185 days ago
I wanted to say the same thing - except that the senior can't actually perform 10x because they're too busy trying to train the next gen devs while attempting to deliver stories themselves in the fractions of time available to them.

Not to say that this is a bad thing, but the difference between a junior and senior is often much more than the difference in their salary.

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