Raw LLM Responses

This is going to be a very unpopular take for this subreddit but posts like this which ridicule others' concerns about AI in the workplace are quite simple-minded in my opinion. Of course AI won't replace all developers, and who knows how long it'll take to get there, but it will certainly give companies more of an incentive to hire fewer developers, if not downsize altogether. I don't care how friendly you think your company is, their primary motivation is to make profit, period. If a handful of expert senior developers can be trained into so-called prompt engineers, why would it ever be in their interest to hire enough people for a traditional team? Hell, given enough time, I can even foresee non-technical folk grasping enough of the basics to generate code themselves before sending it off to a "real developer" who now gets to take on the fun task of debugging whatever trash the AI spits out. If this is your ideal future, more power to you I guess. This isn't like the calculator. Efficiency will not necessarily make our lives as programmers easier, it just gives us the ability to be even more overworked. Companies will catch on to this apparent free time AI frees up. *"You just have to generate and debug, right? Perfect! Here's another 4 projects we've found the bandwidth for."* Maybe you enjoy being a corporate code-machine for some reason, but I personally enjoy finishing my balanced 8-5 and then going home to make music or play D&D or something. *"Don't want to be replaced? Just be a good developer! AI will improve the industry by getting rid of bad talent."* This idea that our industry needs to transform into even more of a Hunger Games-esque bloodbath is disheartening to say the least. It seems like every SWE on this subreddit thinks of themself as a unique butterfly in their workplace, an indispensable asset who will lead the vanguard in the oncoming AI-revolution. This may come as an unfortunate reality check, but the vast majority of people are ave