So what happens when the experienced devs quit or retire... ?
this post was submitted on 17 Oct 2025
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That's the question that no AI-bro has answered so far. When I retire, I'll spend my time writing simple open-source stuff for me and for those who still want to create stuff and solve problems.
surely the plagiarism machine will have evolved itself into a superintelligent thinking machine by then.
right?
By regurgitating its own slop !
By Jove, you've cracked it.
Honestly I think AI is a scape goat here. Tech has been doing layoffs and reducing staff since covid ended and I think they're just rolling with the AI excuse to both make AI sound more competent and to take some heat off of them.
Who cares? Line go up good.
Right?
On a realistic scale in 20 years AI doesn't just pop it crashes every CEOs company that bet on it because AI is just a pattern recognition algorithm and its all just attempts at following the pattern it recognizes.
Same shit when we shipped the jobs in 2013 to code farms that had no fucking clue how to actually do dev work. It'll come back in a few years. Give it no more than another 5 years of this shit and code will be so fucked production will grind to a halt requiring these idiots to rehire competent devs again, then the jr positions will follow.
This still assumes that there will still be competent devs who want to come back to work.
What have they been doing for the last five years ? Presumably finding something else to pay the rent and/or provide fulfillment.
Fulfillment?
Retired.
Not saying some will jump to other fields, but the nearly 5 years of code farming bullshit happened and we recovered.