This meme is just cope at this point, and it’s frustrating to watch engineers pretend that it was actually the architecture that was hard or whatever.
No author, this isn’t the same as SPAs and CI/CD.
This isn’t just happy tools helping us focus on the business side.
We’re devaluing all white collar work. The thing that keeps the US economy afloat. Even if this tech requires human oversight, why would companies keep you when they can hire someone overseas at 1/10th the cost and get to 80% of the productivity with AI.
Anthropic just dropped their safety pledge. Do you think they’ll hesitate as they transfer wealth from workers to their shareholders?
Please people. Stop being avoidant. Stop pretending it’s a meritocracy and you’re at the top. Stop pretending the one thing about the job AI can’t do is the job.
They’ve been able to hire someone from overseas for ages for 1/10th the cost, turns out there are other variables in play.
It's the combination of factors. AI augmentation makes offshoring much more viable.
I… don’t agree with this at all.The bottleneck of offshoring was always in the other parts of the job, not code generation. It was in communication and feedback, and product and customer needs.
LLMs are literally communication and comprehension tools. An offshore team with AI assistance can produce clearer English documentation, parse ambiguous product requirements more effectively, and ultimately close the feedback loop faster.
This is the exact cope I’m talking about, as if these tools are just good at code generation and the actual work was always communication or architecture or something.
Ehh, maybe a little. I don’t think the bottle neck has been prised open all that much yet in those areas
This is a pretty defeatist take. Stop doing that, and start doing what instead?