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aeonfluxtoday at 11:15 AM3 repliesview on HN

> And then people still think their developer jobs are safe.

From my experience, most developers are actually very anxious and scared about their future.


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AshamedCaptaintoday at 11:36 AM

When actually it should be software companies that should be worried. If you believe like some guys do that you can just point an LLM to any piece of software in the world and ask it to patch it / replicate it / maintain it with zero copyright repercussions, what is the point of software companies again?

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pjmlptoday at 11:40 AM

Many are, and I already seen team sizes shrink thanks to AI tooling, on top of what was already happening with serverless and iPaaS low code/no code tooling.

However in many forums and blogposts still looks like that the "only happens to others" mentality is quite prevalent.

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ljmtoday at 11:33 AM

I imagine that, if you're in the US, it is seriously scary. Nobody is safe, not even in FAANG. Probably FAANG is the worst place to be now if you care about stability but it was never great before that (stack ranking, firing quotas, etc.). At least you had the idea that performance would keep you safe, but now it doesn't.

I'm not sure how much that translates in other countries where protections for workers are stronger and companies have different operating models. Not to say it's without trade-offs, you might feel safer over in Europe but you're never gonna see US-style compensation, and the concept of becoming a millionaire (and a new startup founder with ex-FAANG credentials) because you joined a startup at the right time is practically non-existent.

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