What happened at Block will likely happen everywhere else - companies now find themselves with an overstock of talent, and they are not structurally ready to absorb additional capacity.
People will achieve more with less - but this also opens the doors to building entire new businesses.
Some folks are under the mistaken impression that our industry builds careful, handcrafted solutions.
Most of the software industry was slop already. AI solutions are an improvement over the previous low quality slop.
@etchedpixels @Migueldeicaza unfortunately, I've seen human code that was worse than the average slop you get out of an LLM.
Lots of folks just stringing together bits of what they found off Google and pounded together until it kind of worked on the happy path.
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