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by adamtaylor_13 9 days ago
> But demand for developers can now be filled by AI

Oh? Is that so? I've yet to see any evidence of this.

I've seen big companies laying off developers with dubious claims about them being replaced by AI. None of them can prove their claims. Their software hasn't gotten noticeably better.

Jevons paradox appears to be in full swing. No sign yet of software slowing down. In fact, my company has continued to grow in demand over the past 2 years due to the fact that we can build better software faster. By any way I could attempt to measure my "value", it is increasing.
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ThrowawayR2 8 days ago
It only took about 10 years between the Linux 2.2 kernel, the first version that was really decent for server workloads, and Sun Microsystems, formerly the largest UNIX server vendor, to be sold to Oracle for peanuts.

Either 2025 or 2026 is the first year that LLMs got really decent so...

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