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nonethewiseryesterday at 1:37 PM3 repliesview on HN

The real answer?

Software engineer quality of life.

There can be an increase in productivity without a corresponding increase in total output. The gains could be captured by software engineers doing a days work in an hour then fucking off in a variety of ways.


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pqtywyesterday at 6:41 PM

> doing a days work in an hour then fucking off in a variety of ways

Until companies start hiring 5x less engineers than they did before and well.. we are clearly moving towards that direction

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MengerSpongeyesterday at 7:20 PM

But that's an inefficient use of dev salary. Y'all are gonna get ground to smooth well-compensated paste.

slopinthebagyesterday at 6:12 PM

Yeah I think this is probably most accurate.