You could use a credit union and probably be okay

Or as others say. Give your savings others who then dump the market.

"a single staff engineer with experience and a trusty LLM is similarly productive as a team of 2-4 junior engineers"

I think we are SEVERELY underestimating the amount of slop that is going to come from this.

It fascinates me how little respect software engineers get. The entire internet paints a picture of software engineers as useless code producing monkeys.

I haven’t seen anything similar in any other engineering industry.

I've seen people estimate two days of work for a manual headline content update on a mature code base they know.

No new tests, no new design, no new implementation. Literally just a single word swapped.

Turns out the engineerinng team had uncertainty with the new testing framework that was mandated, and rather than document it they blew up their velocity.

This approach bites back. When work isn't understood, people on the outside disrespect the workers.

Isn’t it a bit suspect that that particular image benefits a special new tool about which the OP is heavily speculating?

I am very surprised that no one in HN can see the correlation of the narrative and speculations vs the absurd age thrown around only to be repeated by actual people whose image is being tarnished because the mass narrative wants them to feel powerless(first stage of wage suppression).

Because in other industries the engineers know something about the real world thing that they're engineering, they aren't just manipulating abstractions.

Computers aren't real

There's already skill issues in the field even with senior people and without AI. It's why we test people to witch hunt for those imposters. Lots of talk about how one bad hire can ruin the whole team or something. Even competent developers stretching across multiple skillsets (front end, back end, ops) that they aren't experts in. And plenty of bad code and technical debt from bad off/on-shore contractors due to skill issues and communication barriers.

I'm not saying you're wrong though, but just that it won't be much different.

Depends on how sloppy 2-4 junior devs are and thr overhead of managing and developing them. I think the comparison could be similar

A lot more bad logic will get by the smell test when you have 1 staff member vibe-coding. And just wait until he is held to that level of zero-test, lowest hanging fruit productivity as being "normal".

That is a good point that wasn't in the original description. I do think test engineers will become more important to ensure the generated code actually fits the requirements. We might even see the role evolving towards more of a business analyst role using LLMs to generate the tests and then adjusting/validating them based on the requirements.

The thing about a junior dev is that often times you can convince them to start/stop doing things a certain way.

Waymo is using public roads 25/7 for automating profit and not paying fair taxes.

I'm never eating the JUST EGG

It tasted fine.

There are recipes for egg-equivalent online, typically involving Kala namak aka black salt, if you want to try doing it yourself.

Ah just what I needed, more anxiety.

And if you put it into the market today they can help you lose the rest. Better late than never!

"Free". The worst four-letter F word in America.

I am in Bangkok right now and while there is public transportation at every corner the air quality is still super low. I took this post as the rich are falling out of love with LUXURY cars. I got passed by a Lamborghini today while walking the streets and said to my friend, while everyone else was busy trying to snap pictures, that I would only be impressed if he could do his own oil change.

I expect $tatus $ymbols to continue falling out of favor and be replaced by self sufficiency. Rich are also falling out of love with alcohol and falling in love with fitness. This is good for everyone.

Also I will never give up my ICE vehicle back home, which is a 20 year old diesel that has 270,000 miles on the clock. I am an original hacker/tinkerer and absolutely despise the tech and guardrails included in ALL modern cars but ESPECIALLY the EVs.

Food for thought, someone who struggles to fit a gym routine into their life is not someone who knows how to train their muscles efficiently. Thanks for the article, Australia.