alt Hacker News> in the end your output is significantly increased.
The claim you're arguing against is that AI will replace software engineering as a discipline. Seems like you're instead saying that it will increase developer productivity, which no one disagrees with.
Well yeah, if you have one senior with the power of 2-3 AI agents - you don’t need juniors or sometimes mid developers at all. Let’s say you’re Whatsapp and your 20 people develop the app, well now you need 5 at most for the same workload.
Obviously we’re not yet at the point where the CEO can enter “build me the next Uber” in Claude Code and watch the stock price go up.