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by oompydoompy74 21 days ago
Nothing. There will be more of us than ever as the amount of money each engineer can generate goes up. I’m not sure why everyone comes to the conclusion that there will be less engineers as productivity increases. We aren’t that expensive relative to the value we generate and AI, when wielded by an expert, will exponentially increase the amount of return a single engineer can generate.
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>I’m not sure why everyone comes to the conclusion that there will be less engineers as productivity increases.

The politics of corporations is such that they don't actually want near infinite productivity. They require churn, cycles, a cadence.