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by lovich 41 days ago
Given that the user between your comment and mine is a 1 day old account that did not address my comment at all and instead hallucinated a response, I assume they are a bot.
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I answered your question. AI-assited programmers will be paid less since more can do the same job through the use of AI assistance. In some cases, they will even can some developers if productivity goes up enough, and the team can reach business objectives with fewer people than pre-AI times. At the same time, these coders will become more and more dependent on AI, and as I'm sure you know, the API is priced so that they make more money than they lose per request. More and more usage = more and more revenue.

This pattern is only going to become more extreme year after year. I used to reject the idea that LLMs could produce useful code or debug things, but these days, we have Claude Opus and chatGPT Codex. And just around the corner, there's Claude Mythos. I believe it's ready to go out, but they are scanning OSS to give the code underneath it all a head start to fix the types of security issues Mythos can find before releasing the product. Otherwise, we could be talking an LLM jailbreak into a "scan this popular Java logging library" or "this popular OS operating system, Linux, for security flaws." If they didn't do it this way, there could have been a lot of damage to PCs, companies, government, bureaucracies, and institutions in general.