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.

@Migueldeicaza I’m afraid that “it produces low quality code” argument itself is no longer relevant. I don’t know how they pulled it off, but it now mostly produces code I’m fully satisfied with, and I have a pretty high bar. The quality of the products is more about what you build and how you ensure quality. There are way more ways to ensure quality now.
@a_grebenyuk agreed, even the cheap local Chinese models are very good