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by DennisP 101 days ago
There definitely is economic value in solving the more challenging problems. Junior devs who can only do the tedious parts have lower salaries.
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There are way fewer challenging problems that people are willing to pay me to solve.

Sure I would love to be working on some cutting edge challenging stuff, but the reality is it has been much more realistic to do the tedious stuff for pay instead

You think people are still getting senior level comp when the job is prompting llm? Ha!