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by efs24 526 days ago
You will get paid 5x as much… assuming you are the only developer that uses this and the market for engineers is rational. However those other developers are going to be 5x as productive too so your rate should stay the same.

The company that pays you will get more code for less money and so they would make more profit if they are the only company taking advantage of this. But all companies will start to produce software at a lower cost so their profits per line of code will be squeezed to where they are now.

You will spend a lot less time writing boiler plate and searching docs or stack overflow. That frees you up to work on real problems and since you’ll be able to create products with less cost per line of code you could potentially compete with your own offerings.

That’s my take anyway.