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bananaflag · 1790961267 · focus · HN ↗
This is probably going to be hugely successful with the majority of the population.
1. copperx · 1790961662 · focus · HN ↗
  It's a matter of weeks/months before they'll host a complete webapp, not just a site. The Saaspocalypse will be complete.
  1. jr3592 · 1790966415 · focus · HN ↗
    Honest question for devs out there... is anyone worried? I don't see enough frank conversation happening around this subject. Timelines. How long until salaries fall? Is it too early to stalk thinking about back up plans? Am I crazy?
    dyauspitr · 1790967312 · focus · HN ↗
    Coding is probably solved. Honestly it’s probably going to be 5 years of runtime starting now depending on industry lag and uptake.
    A team I was managing spent a whole year converting government forms into a web app. It took a while and there was a lot of discussion with the end users and a bunch of back and forth (keep in mind this is government software with a lot of onerous legal requirements). Then about 4 months ago, we just fed Codex the forms, along with the UI design and the legal requirements and it spat it out in 1 hour. Was it perfect? No. But our iterative loop became make the web app, show it to end users and then incorporate feedback and completely cut out the UX team, product etc. We were able to complete the conversion in 2 weeks with one guy (something like 150+ government forms/applications). For most simple to medium corporate development work it’s basically over.
    bushbaba · 1790967960 · focus · HN ↗
    You'll need less people but not no people.
    dyauspitr · 1790968014 · focus · HN ↗
    Yeah, probably 10% of our current workforce is all that’s needed.
    bushbaba · 1790968657 · focus · HN ↗
    You could argue this was true prior to AI. A lot of the workforce is doing questionable value bureaucracy

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