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[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

The work can't be done by someone paid less. The work can be done by highly skilled, experienced developers with fewer junior resources. The real death comes 60 years later when there are no more developers because there is no viable path to becoming a senior.

Technical writers you may be correct about because translating text is one is the primary use cases for AI.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Here's the thing. Pay for work isn't based on skill alone. It's scarcity of a given demographic (skill makes up just part of that).

If the number of people overall is cut for software development worldwide, then scarcity at all levels will reduce and I reckon that will reduce pay.

I think our pay will start to diminish.