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0 pointsnetdevphoenix10mo ago0 comments

When a company lays off a chunk of the workforce because the increased productivity due to LLMs means they don't need as many people, how is it an enabler for the laid off people.

What happens when most companies do this?

During the 10s, every dev out there was screaming "everyone should learn to code and get a job coding". During the 20s, many devs are being laid off.

For a field full of self-professed smart and logic people, devs do seem to be making tons of irrational choices.

Are we in need of more devs or in need of more skilled devs? Do we necessarily need more software written? Look at npm, the world is flooding in poorly written software that is a null reference exception away from crashing.

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sumedh10mo ago

> What happens when most companies do this?

It also means it becomes easier to start new company and solve a problem for people.

netdevphoenixOP10mo ago

People get laid off when money is expensive. When money is expensive, running companies is harder. Starting a new company is even harder. Without capital, all you can offer is some words, a broken demo of your v1 prototype and some sweet words. You can't start a company with just that when money is expensive.

Dlemo10mo ago

Right now we have not enough software developers at least based on surveys.

So now LLM helps us with that.

In parallel all the changes due to AI also need more effort for now. That's what I called golden age.

After that, I can imagine fundamental change for us developers.

And at least we're I live, a lot of small companies never got the chance to properly become modern due to the good developers earning very good money somewhere else.

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