Yep, I personally see the cost of doing a start-up going way down for individual developers or even junior developers.
This is the ray of sunshine in all this AI stuff, to me.
You know, until that AI code breaks and you have no idea what's going on internally.
You know how hard it is to start debugging a project you haven't been onboarded to? Now imagine that every time something has a hiccup.
yes - and in another way, too. a lot of the demand for programmers is driven by successive waves of new technology adoption and investment - and AI is looking to be a motherload that should keep us going for awhile.
Additionally there’s the math behind it. If Company A fires 50% of their staff because AI lets the remaining 50% work at twice the productivity then how will they compete with Company B that keeps their staff and now gets 200% efficiency?
The math is in favor of getting more, not fewer, developers.