[akomtu]

It doesn't need to completely replace software devs. Rather, AI will make a $25k/year software dev as good as a $250k/year software dev, and the 25k one won't even need to speak English. The real question is: will AI enable the now jobless 250k software dev do something that's so valuable that the US companies will need his services at this price?

[mbil]

IMO, if the company knows how to leverage them, yes. They’ll be the ones bringing online fleets of “junior dev” software agents, connecting them to telemetry and evaluation systems, maintaining subsystems in various states of modernity, interfacing between stakeholders and systems, and being a responsible party for the bosses. A lot of that isn’t too different from the role today, except they’ll be more impactful, produce more value, and have more time for the deep reflection that generates insight and invention.

[codr7]

Sorry, that doesn't compute.

If you have a 25k/year software dev, and you pair it up with AI, now you have two 25k/year software devs at best.

It's sort of capable of producing the same crap as the least experienced, least motivated developers.

[JustExAWS]

While I wouldn’t go as far $25K vs $250K, the main difference between the $125K developer and the $250K developer is the latter was willing to memorize enough leetCode to get into BigTech.