[acron0]

To put an economic spin on this (that no one asked for), this is also the capitalist nirvana. I don't have an immediate citation but from my experience software engineer salary is usually one of the biggest items on a P&L which prevents the capitalist approaching the singularity: limitless profit margin. Obviously this is unachievable but one of the major obstacles to this is in the process of being destablised and disrupted.

[cudgy]

in the most profitable / high margin software industry, what other major costs are there?

[mattgreenrocks]

Sam Altman’s real job is pushing AI hopium on execs who will believe anything in pursuit of that nirvana.

[TheOtherHobbes]

Which is hilarious, because AI is making it easier and easier to bring a good idea to market with much less external financing than usual.

You can argue about security, reliability, and edge cases, but it's not as if human devs have a perfect record there.

Or even a particularly good one.

What are those execs bringing to the table, beyond entitlement and self-belief?

[mattgreenrocks]

> What are those execs bringing to the table, beyond entitlement and self-belief?

The status quo, which always require an order of magnitude more effort to overcome. There's also a substantial portion of the population that needs well-defined power hierarchies to feel psychologically secure.