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amirhirschlast Saturday at 11:53 PM3 repliesview on HN

The effect of these tools is people losing their software jobs (down 35% since 2020). Unemployed devs aren’t clamoring to go use AI on OSS.


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majewskylast Sunday at 1:28 AM

Wasn't most of that caused by that one change in 2022 to how R&D expenses are depreciated, thus making R&D expenses (like retaining dev staff) less financially attractive?

Context: This news story https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44180533

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KetoManx64last Sunday at 12:20 AM

Same thing happened to farmers during the industrial revolution, same thing happened to horse drawn carriage drivers, same thing happened to accountants when Excel came along, mathmaticins, and on and on the list goes. Just part of human peogress.

agumonkeylast Sunday at 10:22 AM

I keep asking chatgpt when will LLM reach 95% software creation automation, answer is ten years.

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