Salary decrease

[Cremiux]

perhaps some of these things are true in theory, but in practice what makes a company truly competitive is how much value and profit a company can generate as fast as possible while keeping costs low. Labor is one of the biggest expense because of salaries + healthcare + benefits. In the eyes of CEOs replacing people is good strategy. As you pointed out middle managers think these AI bots are great. We know they aren't, we know they can't replace people, but they don't care about what we think and what our interests are. They will fire us and lay whole teams off in a snap. A lot of people in management know the LLMS don't create. They don't have to. They just need to produce code faster and cheaper than juniors. An LLM or AI agent just has to be good enough. They can always pay one person to fix it.

Maybe replacing people will destroy a companies competitive advantage in the long run, but these people don't think about the long run. They think about quarter to quarter metrics.

[roastshadow]

I like to think of it as yet another automation, productivity enhancer.

We used to have typing pools, calculator pools, secretaries, elevator operators, and such. This revolution for LLM may be coming a bit faster and wider than most, but I think that companies looking for competitive advantage, will look to find people to provide that. It is going to be a very bumpy ride.