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>>companies aren’t investing in junior developers It was a case before AI as well. Overall it reads the same as "Twitter will be destroyed by mass layoffs". But it is still online
https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/24/24351317/elon-musk-x-twit...
It's being kept online because it's a good propaganda tool, not due to how it performs on the free market.
We have fired all our programmers. However, the AI is hard to work with, it expects specific wording in order to program our code as expected. We have hired people with expertise in the specific language needed to transmit our specifications to the AI with more precision.
Many people are missing the point. The strategy for AI usage is not a long-term strategy to make the world more productive. If companies can save a buck this year, companies will do it. Period. The average manager has short-term goals that needs to fulfill, and if they can use AI to fulfill them they will do it, future be damned. To reign in on long-term consequences has always been part of government and regulations…
Has there been any company so far that has fired 100% of their programmers to replace them with AI?
>>companies aren’t investing in junior developers It was a case before AI as well. Overall it reads the same as "Twitter will be destroyed by mass layoffs". But it is still online
Many people are missing the point. The strategy for AI usage is not a long-term strategy to make the world more productive. If companies can save a buck this year, companies will do it. Period. The average manager has short-term goals that needs to fulfill, and if they can use AI to fulfill them they will do it, future be damned. To reign in on long-term consequences has always been part of government and regulations…
This, we really should have unionized several years ago
- Half assed developer can construct a functional program with AI prompts.
- Deployed at scale for profit
- Many considerations were not considered due to lack of expertise (security, for example)
- Bad things happen for users.
I have at least two or three ideas that I've canned for now because it's just not safe for users (AI apps of that type require a lot of safety considerations). For example, you cannot create a collaborative AI app without considering how users can pollute the database with unsafe content (moderation).
I'm concerned a lot of people in this world are not being as cautious.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
D̴i̴d̴n̴t̴ ̴f̴i̴r̴e̴ ̴a̴n̴y̴o̴n̴e̴ ̴p̴e̴r̴ ̴s̴e̴,̴ ̴b̴u̴t̴ ̴I̴ ̴a̴m̴ ̴a̴ ̴s̴o̴l̴o̴ ̴d̴e̴v̴e̴l̴o̴p̴e̴r̴ ̴a̴n̴d̴ ̴I̴ ̴c̴a̴n̴ ̴d̴o̴ ̴t̴h̴e̴ ̴w̴o̴r̴k̴ ̴o̴f̴ ̴2̴ ̴p̴e̴o̴p̴l̴e̴ ̴n̴o̴w̴ Edit: I am a solo developer and I have to work half the time only now.
Could have been "I am a solo developer and I have to work half the time only now."