alt Hacker NewsI'm starting to find the naive techno-optimism here annoying. If you don't have capital or can do something else you will be homeless.
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ipnon • today at 9:19 AM
But you only $200/month for the productivity of what used to cost monthly salary for 10 software engineers. Doesn't this democratize software construction?
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Well, there are so many more lower hanging fruits that LLMs can actually replace before they get to developers -- basically every middle manager, and a significant chunk of all white collar jobs.
I'm not convinced software developers will be replaced - probably less will be needed and the exact work will be transformed a bit, but an expert human still has to be in the loop, otherwise all you get is a bunch of nonsense.
Nonetheless, it may very well transform society and we will have to adapt to it.