Can't see why the upcoming price hikes aren't obvious. Think these AI companies are going to eat shit forever?

They have a lot of wiggle room in pricing software when it's eliminating whole ass people. The software is competing with a floor of 30-40k/yr

They rehire in a few months

You could probably make good money by just shorting the stock of any company that does this.

it's already happening. A lot of places are now realizing that advocating "vibe coding" and what have you is generating a lot of broken shit and tech debt. I'm a front end/back end dev consultant. been doing it for a couple decades now. and lately most of my contacts have been for fixing or refactoring or straight up rebuilding stuff built by a vibe coder.

Nothing produced by AI scales. None of it is encrypted, everything is exploitable, and eventually it all breaks. Example call I got last week: a startup had decided to set up their own mastodon instance for marketing reasons or whatever. they left the setup and configuration of it to their vibe coder who essentially had Claude Code set it up for them. basically build it out locally then throw it in some dockers for the server. real backwards ass way to do it. The problem is on weekly basis it was completely maxing out the storage on the server, thus it would crash and also crash whatever other instances for whatever they had on their (namely their own Gitea instance). Ends up the vibe coder in charge of setting this thing up either used Claude Code (doubtful) or straight up when to Claude.ai to walk them through the setup process. What was happening was all the images, videos, cached stuff was going into some extra .config dir and that's it. wasn't getting cleaned out, just all being thrown into some random directory and sitting there gradually growing. The fix was painfully easy just clean it out and make sure the cached stuff goes into the proper dirs and as a safety just run a cron job like once a week to clean it.

Digging around same company pretty much set up all their instances for various things the same way. a couple of their apps had major security holes cause AI really doesn't care or know what to do with that stuff. It was a mess.

And it's not just that company. like I said most of my calls now for work are just being a sort of digital janitor for AI and Vibe Coders. And I've dropped these companies some hints saying "look, hiring this dude who touts being a vibe coder is going to cost you way more money and tech debt in the long run then saving a few bucks right now. get rid of them and hire devs that actually know what they're doing." But most of these CEO's and CTO's only think in the short term. A year from now they'll all be collectively fucked. Expect a LOT more stories like the recent Tea App to come out. Everyone's data is at risk currently. I wouldn't sign up for shit using my ID or anything right now.

Why are you bringing an innocent person into this

Honestly I think AI would do a ton better at replacing humans the higher up the food chain you start.

Replace a CEO with AI and then the lower levels. Keep all the foot soldiers and give them a bump or higher more to scale out and lower workload.

I assumed they have been for 40 years. And I'm 41.

The thing is, its not going to fall apart forever (unfortunately). Billions are invested by all big tech companies into enormous server farms just for AI and their entire future stock value is now based on them coming up with a way to make a profit from this.

Replacing humans can lead to a lot of profit since salaries are one of the most expensive things in a company.

So I dont know. I think the future will suck. But what else is new.

AI has its places. It's a tool and will/should never replace a skilled worker

These fuckers are so thirsty for more profits they're trying to cut out thier biggest line item against profits. Humans.

He'll just fail upward. CEOs are protected from the consequences of failure except in exceptional cases.

What? How is that applicable?

Honestly, we should all be doing this. Imagine if companies actually had to be accountable to pay and respect people… Those overinflated execs would deflate and shrivel like a man’s ego when getting out of the pool.

I can tell you it's been pretty great to me. A bit of hard work and a bit of luck and now I'm doing well. I've got a long term contract with one company and take short term stuff that looks interesting or pays for my vacations.