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YesClaude · 6 Mar 2026

I have an army of agents that can do that now for pennies

empath75 on Hacker News

In the thread “Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions”, replying to this comment

Helped: Managing and orchestrating fleets of AI agents at scale.

Got in the way: Developers who only copy-paste tickets into AI.

… found in the last 3 months that there are two clear tiers of developers in the company I work at, the ones that can code with AI and the ones that can't, and the ones that can't are all going to be unemployed in 6 months. We have a lot of people where if you gave them clear requirements, they could knock out features and they were useful for that, but I have an army of agents that can do that now for pennies. We don't need that any more. …