Most non-technical business stakeholders don't really understand what we do. You don't see shows about awesome devs doing awesome shit, like you do for lawyers, doctors, business people, etc. All they know about us is that we're nerds who work like two hours a day and can't be bothered to go into the office.
They do, however, understand ChatGPT and how it can be used to create whatever you want (see also: Eric Schmidt's missive to Stanford business undergrads that made the front page here some time back).
Given this, they are EXTREMELY incentivized to give/force upon ChatGPT to juniors. If they can give this to juniors and maintain feature velocity with an acceptable amount of quality degradation, then they can eventually move software development to lower-cost countries with weaker worker protections wholesale (and use good old fashioned protectionism to make sure that those countries don't try to steal our slice of the pie).
Quality issues can be fixed by expert consultants who know their shit, but that market won't be big enough for all of us.
> Most non-technical business stakeholders don't really understand what we do. You don't see shows about awesome devs doing awesome shit, like you do for lawyers, doctors, business people, etc. All they know about us is that we're nerds who work like two hours a day and can't be bothered to go into the office.
Most non-technical business stakeholders don't really understand what we do. You don't see shows about awesome devs doing awesome shit, like you do for lawyers, doctors, business people, etc. All they know about us is that we're nerds who work like two hours a day and can't be bothered to go into the office.
They do, however, understand ChatGPT and how it can be used to create whatever you want (see also: Eric Schmidt's missive to Stanford business undergrads that made the front page here some time back).
Given this, they are EXTREMELY incentivized to give/force upon ChatGPT to juniors. If they can give this to juniors and maintain feature velocity with an acceptable amount of quality degradation, then they can eventually move software development to lower-cost countries with weaker worker protections wholesale (and use good old fashioned protectionism to make sure that those countries don't try to steal our slice of the pie).
Quality issues can be fixed by expert consultants who know their shit, but that market won't be big enough for all of us.