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Re:GitHub Copilot by joelbluminator on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @10:56AM (#27676698)
Maybe thirty four years later. I don't think there's AI to gather requirements, talk to people, understand a problem and produce code. That's kinda general intelligence level AI. But this thing can possibly make devs work easier and if it's good enough maybe smaller teams can produce more.
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Re:GitHub Copilot by sitkack on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @11:26AM (#27677210)
This will allow for a D or C level coder to be a B/B- coder which is great, quality goes up. But corps will use this to depress wages and finally be able to create that wonderous unicorn of completely fungible coder.

This kind of tooling is akin to the crossbow.

It will allow for less skilled folks to push out code that is like other code at great speed. A copy pasta accelerator if you will.

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Re:GitHub Copilot by yellowfish on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @11:35AM (#27677383)
Is that a bad thing? sw-developers are grossly overpaid to the point it's damaging
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Re:GitHub Copilot by Sholmesy on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @11:51AM (#27677634)
Grossly overpaid for effort/comparison to other wages/industries.

Adequately paid for value captured (hence why companies are willing to pay for them at this rate).

Not a moral statement, but this gives more tools to those in power.

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Re:GitHub Copilot by xeromal on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @11:53AM (#27677666)
I tend to think like you. Somehow we convinced businesses that a mostly-blue collar job gets paid white collar salary but I've been told that SW-engineers aren't overpaid. Most people are just very underpaid.

What are your thoughts on that? I can lean that way just because I have a genius mechanical engineer friend who only makes 60k in his 30s.

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Re:GitHub Copilot by yellowfish on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @01:56PM (#27679423)
I think it's easier to bring people down to the same level rather then bringing them up to it
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Re:GitHub Copilot by nyghtly on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @01:33PM (#27679127)
If the reduction of developer wages led to the increase of wages for other workers, sure. But of course that won't happen. The reduction of wages for any class of worker will simply lead to further consolidation of wealth.
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Re:GitHub Copilot by grumple on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @01:52PM (#27679379)
We each produce 1MM+ in actual revenue per year but paying us 100k+ is too much?
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Re:GitHub Copilot by booleandilemma on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @12:40PM (#27678347)
Do you think project managers are overpaid too?
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