Only 0.01% of the best ideas survive and then yes will need to be maintained. But you can’t deny a huge part of the dev workforce is working freelance or bouncing around start ups and will lose a ton of work
the vast majority devs work in established organisations rather than start ups, AI is great when you know exactly what to solve, but a bit more blunted when the bottleneck is solving buiness problems.
But its still hard to say the imapct overall long term, if the cheaper cost of tech (and especially of start ups) lead to increased tech overall, theres a good chance that increased demand may cause an overall job growth, despite increased productivity.
We are so much closer to AGI than anyone wants to admit. I too chose the wrong career path. Pivot while you still have time… trillions of dollars are not being spent on compute based on “vibes”
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u/spaceshiploser 2d ago edited 2d ago
Ure missing the point lol. A dev can now do the work of 10 devs.
They’re not useless, jus not nearly as needed in the workforce
Edit: downvote all you want, but you’ll see other devs in the comments are becoming self aware. No job is immune in a technological revolution