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by whatever1 82 days ago
Specialized shoemakers lost their jobs to generic shoe factory workers but there is more shoe consumption than ever before in history.

LLMs like manufacturing will multiply the coding throughput. Likely the mythical 10x swe will not be as valuable, but the work expectation from anyone in the field will just multiply.
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bluefirebrand 82 days ago
"More demand for software engineers but they are all less skilled and less paid than before" is not exactly the outcome I'm hoping for, personally
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menaerus 82 days ago
> but there is more shoe consumption than ever before in history.

Is it because the population is constantly growing or is it because per-person shoe-units is increasing due to that person increased wealth or is it because per-person shoe-units is increasing due to 5x lower price of generic shoe-units? How does that exactly transfer to the production of software and market absorbing the software hyper-inflation?

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