[nonethewiser]

The real answer?

Software engineer quality of life.

There can be an increase in productivity without a corresponding increase in total output. The gains could be captured by software engineers doing a days work in an hour then fucking off in a variety of ways.

[pqtyw]

> doing a days work in an hour then fucking off in a variety of ways

Until companies start hiring 5x less engineers than they did before and well.. we are clearly moving towards that direction

[nonethewiser]

Quite possibly. Doubftul it will happen all at once. If you can get 8 hours of work done in 1 they'd need to ramp up demand 8x. Would be interesting to see that happen over night. Happy monday. Here, take these 30 tickets.

[MengerSponge]

But that's an inefficient use of dev salary. Y'all are gonna get ground to smooth well-compensated paste.

[slopinthebag]

Yeah I think this is probably most accurate.