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Re:Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or ... by fny on Friday March 06, 2026 @03:12PM (#47280456)
As the kids say, AI makes everyone a 10x engineer. Who would you you want to 10x?
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Re:Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or ... by andai on Friday March 06, 2026 @03:24PM (#47280613)
But it's measuring quantity, not quality.

https://www.folklore.org/Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.html

What we really need is the -10X engineer ;)

Alas, his job would entirely consist of debloating the slop everyone else is pumping out "at inference speed".

https://steipete.me/posts/2025/shipping-at-inference-speed

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