Re:Is GitHub Copilot a blessing, or a curse?
by 908B64B197 on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @02:56PM
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> I've been a dev for almost 25 years, and in my experience how much someone is paid has very little correlation to how good their code is. I've worked with outsourced developers in India, Poland, and Vietnam who are brilliant at writing clean, robust, well-designed code and earn the equivalent of low-two-digits thousands of dollars per year, as well as former FAANG engineers who earn three-digit thousands of dollars and write untested, untestable spaghetti code.
That has not been my experience at all.
There's this myth of the genius dropout in our industry, or that FAANG is basically luck, and yet it always fails to materialize.
I've been a dev for almost 25 years, and in my experience how much someone is paid has very little correlation to how good their code is. I've worked with outsourced developers in India, Poland, and Vietnam who are brilliant at writing clean, robust, well-designed code and earn the equivalent of low-two-digits thousands of dollars per year, as well as former FAANG engineers who earn three-digit thousands of dollars and write untested, untestable spaghetti code.
I'm afraid we'll see more and more of these, since now they'll be able to cycle through completions and try until it seems to pass all tests.
In which case the value will lie in defining the tests, and the people who do that will earn the most. That's fine.