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by samsk 858 days ago
Yeah, lets imagine that magic:

Prompt: AI, production is down. Fix it. AI: working...

3 days later.

CEO: Hey, dear contractor, our Production is down for 3 days - can you fix it ? Contactor: Sure, give me $500/hour and within 3 weeks it might work again. You know, you have 10mio SLOC, 1mio npm dependencies so it will take a 'bit' longer...

Yes, its bit oversimplified, but imagine it ;)
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mjr00 858 days ago
It's easy to imagine because it already happened in the mid-late 00s with the first attempt at software dev cost reduction when companies tried outsourcing to cheap, underqualified labor in India, Bangladesh, etc.

Being the person who comes in to salvage a software disaster is a hell of a different career than a greenfield cloud startup dev or FAANG proto-pusher, but it can be extremely profitable. and yes, I suspect the demand for that type of software expert will be on the rise.

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