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by weird-eye-issue 208 days ago
> jobs that are easy to consolidate into existing roles

I think you are on to something here. AI is what gives people the ability to consolidate many roles into one.

Like in my example, when I fired my front-end developer, I now can easily do that task.

Or, a marketing generalist can now create blog posts using ChatGPT instead of needing to also have a content writer

To your point about "non-essential": "Front-end development" is not necessarily something I would consider non-essential, but maybe "front-end developer" is now. Something to think about
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tovej 208 days ago
If you're vibe coding a front end, you're going to run into issues with technical debt eventually, so that's a very short sighted way to handle things.

Or if you do have the technical skill for front-end work, you could have done it without the AI.

I do doubt this, however, because AI assisted programming does not increase productivity for skilled workers as much according to studies.

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weird-eye-issue 208 days ago
I've been programming for well over a decade, but as a founder I wear many different hats so I had a front end developer to help take some of the load off.

But AI coding got to the point where, for me personally, it took less of my own time and effort to work directly with the AI (Claude Code) to do the front-end tasks required compared to working with the developer, reviewing their code, etc.

I'm not "vibe coding" or adding technical debt.

> you could have done it without the AI.

Technically anyone could do anything, but there are finite things in this world like the number of hours in a day lol

> according to studies.

Great, I don't care about the "studies". I'm talking about how things work for me personally in the real world and giving a concrete example of how AI spend has replaced an employee but you are welcome to ignore that

Also, it should be noted that in studies, the conclusions are typically based on an average or median, so some people will see a benefit, and some people won't... and that will be based on a number of factors

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