[5701652400]

same applies for seniors as well. ther isn't much distinction of senior vs junior human dev (as in cost and efficiency) compared to AI-dev (cost and efficiency). more so, at current imrpovement rate. in couple more years you would not need seniors anymore either.

[Daishiman]

As long as architectural decisions have long-term costs and you need human taste and judgement to speculate on what business needs will come about in the next few years you'll still need human engineers.

[colesantiago]

We replaced most of our juniors and seniors at my company with AI.

We only have like 2 seniors down from 30 and they are more productive than ever.

I expect with Mythos we can get this down to at least 1 highly paid senior engineer and the rest a swarm of agents they are managing.

[Daishiman]

What exactly was your company doing such that the concurrent development of features and infrastructure by 30 people is now done by 2? Each engineer is monitoring 15 Claude swarms?

[colesantiago]

We just have regular web, backend, search, ingestion, frontend and mobile codebases.

Turns out we didn't need these engineers and you can just have one or two strong seniors on this.

They are more productive than ever.

[mirsadm]

This seems pretty unlikely. If it turns out to be true then you don't need a junior or senior dev you can just get a random person from the street and they could do the job.

[5701652400]

that is what CEO of NVIDIA is telling everyone. "everyone is a programmer now".

[jason_oster]

I don't follow. Aren't you arguing something more like "no one is a programmer now"?

[5701652400]

yes. software engineer as a paid profession is going away within couple years.

when everybody can just press a button in elevator, you do not need dedicated paid person to do it.

[jason_oster]

Who programs the neural network frameworks and the tooling that classifies and cleans up training data?

Oh, you're saying it's all getting automated. I see. So acceleration to AGI, ASI, and beyond is just a couple of years away. Good to know.

[bossyTeacher]

Finally, everyone can code. Thanks to all the programmers for their efforts