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Re:Beyond the 70%: Maximizing the human 30% of AI-assisted c... by DrillShopper on Friday March 14, 2025 @09:04AM (#43362239)
You're missing that the pressure to move to AI assisted coding to destroy the wages of programmers is coming from the top down. The focus on AI for programming is both to reduce the demand for software engineers and to make those remaining uncertain about their jobs because the suits are sick of paying current market rate.
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Re:Beyond the 70%: Maximizing the human 30% of AI-assisted c... by yodsanklai on Friday March 14, 2025 @09:13AM (#43362310)
> destroy the wages of programmers is coming from the top down

True, we're only cost to them. They can't wait to get rid of us, and we're building the tools for them to do so.

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Re:Beyond the 70%: Maximizing the human 30% of AI-assisted c... by apwell23 on Friday March 14, 2025 @09:06AM (#43362249)
I think these sort of articles are CTO fodder, i have friends who have their company mandate that "all coding should now use AI " .
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