Yes
We've also started hiring people who can simply prove they can build products for us using AI in a single day
kypro on Hacker News
senior developers who now write close to 90% of their code with AI
In the thread “Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far”
Helped: Agentic coding wrappers and improved context handling.
… Today we have people at our company who have never written code building and shipping bespoke products. We've also started hiring people who can simply prove they can build products for us using AI in a single day. These are not software engineers because we are paying them wages no SWEs would accept, but it's still a decent wage for a 20 something year old without any real coding skills but who is interested in building stuff. …