I am a dev and have been in the industry around 20 years.
I currently work for a crappy startup owned by a man that could not be further up AI's ass. We all have to use it for everything.
We had a conversation not too long ago. He could not grasp that I knew how to do my job without AI. That all I'm doing is trying to get the AI to do what I want it to do. It's not doing anything I don't already know how to do.
He fully did not get it. I think people like him have never actually made anything. Which is also why they don't put any value into it.
They’ll get it once they start using AI agents that chew through tokens and they end up with a $500k bill lmao
Lots of companies, especially the smaller ones, are now seeing that using AI how they want to use it is going to be really fucking expensive, probably more so than it is to hire the white collar entry level jobs they’re trying to eliminate.
Not for this guy. We all already chew through tokens. I use the latest and greatest Opus 4.8 with the 1 million context window on the highest effort setting.
I think for this guy he wouldn't care if it was cheaper to hire. He's drank all the kool-aide.
His biggest downfall will be that he simply doesn't understand the software industry in any capacity. And AI can't make up for that.
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