now I can do it all myself in the same amount of time
scarface_74 on Hacker News
1-3 junior engineers
In the thread “Ask HN: Should we stop worrying that AI will replace developer jobs?”
Helped: Replacing grunt work and junior staffing with AI generation.
… green field implementations which are proof of concepts/MVPs to train clients and to hopefully get a larger implementation down the road where we will need to bring in a team, before LLMs got “good enough”, I would have had to staff 1-3 junior engineers to do the grunt work while I did a lot of the higher customer facing, architecture, team lead type work, now I can do it all myself in the same amount of time. The code that even ChatGPT generates is usually just as well structured using good software practices as I would have done - and I’ve been in the field professionally since 1996. …