constantcrying 7 days ago

Writing software will never again be a skill worth 100k a year.

I am sure Software developers are here to stay, but nobody who just writes software is worth anywhere close to 100k a year. Either AI or outsourcing is making sure of that.

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owebmaster 5 days ago

Right now there are thousands of solo devs making >100k a year without a boss to annoy them. That's only going to grow with AI.

constantcrying 4 days ago

>That's only going to grow with AI.

And the amount of code these people write is only going to decrease.

owebmaster 4 days ago

Yes but the size and complexity of their software will increase proportionally.

constantcrying 3 days ago

And? It has done so for decades already.

owebmaster 3 days ago

So? What is your point?

constantcrying 3 days ago

"Writing software will never again be a skill worth 100k a year."

First sentence of my OP. I thought it was obvious.

owebmaster 2 days ago

Which is not true, writing software will continue to be a skill worth millions, even billions. But yeah, as we will soon have hundreds of millions of programmers, on avg 100k will be a thing of the past :)