[dark_star]

> But the value is not that we don't need stack overflow, it is that we don't need as many programmers.

I'll believe that when I see it. I lead a team of AI-boosted developers, I'm hiring as fast as I can, and all my company wants out of them is more and more.

If they have 2x, 3x, or 10x output, the company can and will use it all.

[akira2501]

So, "output" is the only metric your company uses? And it has an unlimited appetite for "output?"

I work with an "AI-boosted" developer. He would be a 10x better developer if he stopped querying the chatbot and started reading basic documentation. We'd have a lot less spaghetti in "his?" codebase.

Where do you work? Maybe we can solve each others problem?

[TheLoafOfBread]

This is my experience with a colleague of mine as well. He is talking to chatgpt and trying to get working solution from it instead of sitting down and putting puzzle pieces together from documentation. He would have been already done with the work if he would stop sieving through AI generated garbage.

[tkgally]

Just out of curiosity: Are you hiring only experienced developers? Or are you also hiring junior developers who are just getting started in the field?

Discussions here on HN about whether or not AI is a threat to developers’ jobs seem to suggest that experienced people maybe don’t have to worry, partly because so much of their work is not coding per se. I wonder, though, about people just starting out. I heard anecdotally a couple of weeks ago about an SV company that has stopped hiring junior developers because the work they used to do can be done much more quickly and cheaply with AI.

I am not a developer myself, but I worked for many years in translation, a field that also seems threatened by AI. LLMs can be powerful tools to assist skilled translators, but they might also be making it difficult for beginners to get started in the field.

[gpsx]

Yes, I should have said we don't need as many programmers to do the same thing. As you say, companies will take advantage of being able to do more, and then there will hopefully be more software needed to leverage the capabiliies of the new AI agents.