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Re:Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything by wincy on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @06:15PM (#43019605)
Interesting. So it sounds like I need to get into the market and charge half as much and steal all of his customers.

These things eventually always end up as a Red Queen’s race, where you have to run as fast as you can to stay in the same place.

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Re:Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything by fragmede on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @02:51AM (#43022941)
From a game theory perspective, it is that simple. But humans are messy and have emotions and feelings and shit.

A different friend who's contractor in a non-tech area told me a client of his secretly showed him his competition's bid for the same project. The competition's bid was much higher, and the reason the client showed him that was to get my friend to raise his rates and resubmit his bid.

So you're welcome to try, but as a programmer looking into the abyss, I'm looking at the whole thing as encouragement to develop all those soft skills that I've been neglecting.

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