Does it matter how someone gets their work done as long as its done on time? Why does using a specific tool matter?
Dude, the time for work is going down drastically, about a third of before. Are you not facing it?
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Guys guys. I do share the sentiment.
On the other hand. Unless we have a breakthrough hardware/physical innovation, GenAI in its current forecast is not energy-efficient, cost-efficient, compared to human/deterministic methods. It has shown no capacity so far to « create » in the sense we animals do.
And all that, still being: highly subsidized (your subscription does NOT cover the costs of the service as of now, we are still in the market creation/capture phase), and without mesurable economical benefit.
Things are still far from being over.
To give you the benefit of doubt - you're not paying attention. The 100$ claude account is profitable inference wise, and performs better than 80% of engineers with upto 5YOE. Architects I speak with want to delegate to this 100$ agent rather than 10000$ engineer.
It is absolutely more cost efficient. Junior engineers are done for.
I'm not a Senior, but I'm not a Junior either. The market has no place for people like me. I've killed myself for almost two years and can't secure a position. It's incredibly disheartening. I have a family to feed. I need to be able to work.
Sending you empathy. I think we have to get used to the lower pay expectation. This is the biggest negative, which does not make up for all of the AI's upsides.
orangecoffee commented on AI is making junior devs useless beabetterdev.com/2026/03/... · Posted by u/beabetterdev
> If you look at the general topic shift on HN over the years it's obvious most people are getting into tech because they want power and money, not for love of tech
I think that is a bit presumptuous, even if there is a hint of truth there. Just because a kid didn't grow up around computers and programming shouldn't exclude them from the tech path or mark them as imposters/pretenders.
It does not exclude. But the expectation of larger money has to go. They're literally competing with 100 dollars a month.
orangecoffee commented on AI is making junior devs useless beabetterdev.com/2026/03/... · Posted by u/beabetterdev
I don’t have to do anything except keep my head down, do my job and enjoy my well earned autonomy. I’m definitely not going to try to convince my skip, skip, skip manager to change their hiring policies. It’s not like my line level manager has any power over anything
Even when I was at a startup before 2020 and I did have the ear of the CTO and the founders I knew my ultimate mission was to do what was needed to get acquired and before that I knew exactly what my mission was when k was hired to lead the tech initiatives as we were acquiring companies “find efficiencies” and go public.
Or do you think I could have convince anyone of anything as an L5 at AWS in the middle between architect at a startup and my current company?
Your getting unnecessarily down voted by devs who want to feel morally superior, but don't have any concrete answer to the conundrum you've posed.
It's about money, and the actual solution would be to lower pay at senior level and give it to juniors, with some lock in agreed by the junior in exchange for this grace.
I doubt the vast majority will agree to this.
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Just for the love of all things, do not let this become like Wikipedia or Mozilla. The moment you start paying for irrelevant things, you lose donors current and in the future. Nothing more frustrating than those two orgs in terms of where they spend their donor funds.
What happened with Wikipedia? I thought they run a tight optimum ship?
I'll talk to the LLM about how stupid all of this is; if you want me productive... I choose the tools, sorry.
Enforce a good diet so we'll finally eat our vegetables, boss. Get out of here. If these are the commonly established boundaries, I'm either gaming it or simply out. Easy choice.
Is there not a higher productivity expectation for you? How are you going to meet those without agents?
orangecoffee commented on What are the best coping mechanisms for AI Fatalism? · Posted by u/johnb95
Can you link some of those projects? I'm genuinely curious.
pi, openclaw, vinext, browser, ccc compiler, the scope is only growing.
Look for the claude icon in the trending GitHub repos https://github.com/trending. It's like on all of them.
It's hard. :( .. Those who are not accepting this are in cognitive dissonance.
orangecoffee commented on What are the best coping mechanisms for AI Fatalism? · Posted by u/johnb95
Ive been wondering as well and it seems acceptance is the only way. The evidence keeps piling with every successful larger and larger GitHub project we see
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I understand your point, but at some point someone needs to think about morality.
If you or I copied and reimplemented nextjs in a better way, it doesn't feel as wrong. But when a large company does that and then brag about it, it's in poor taste.
Especially pointing out one developer and 1000 usd of tokens replacing the efforts of hundreds of talented developers. There's people on the other side of the screen.
The money points hurts yes. We were worth 200 per hour, and as of yesterday were compared to bring 2 dollars per hour, and going down.
The thing is feeling bad or complaining about this does nothing. What else then? Acceptance?