Comment by motbus3

Tldr; initially I thought we might be onto something, but now, I don't see much of a revolution.

I won't put intention into the text because I did not check any other posts from the same guy.

That said, I think this revolution is not revolutionary yet. Not sure if it will be, but maybe?

What is happening os that companies are going back to "normal" number of people in software development. Before it was because of adoption to custom software, later because of labour shortage, then we had a boom because people caught up into it as a viable career but then it started scaling down again because one developer can (technically) do more with AI.

There are huge red flags with "fully automated" software development that are not being fixed but for those outside of the expertise area, doesn't seem relevant. With newer restrictions related to cost and hardware, AI will be even a worse option unless there is some sort of magic that fixes everything related to how it does code.

The economy (all around the world) is bonkers right now. Honestly, I saw some Jr Devs earning 6 fig salaries (in USD) and doing less than what me and my friends did when we were Jr. There is inflation and all, but the numbers does not seem to add.

Part of it all is a re- normalisation but part of it is certainly a lack of understanding of software and/or// engineering.

Current tools, and I include even those kiro, anti-gravity and whatever, do not solve my problems, just make my work faster. Easier to look for code, find data and read through blocks of code I don't see in a while. Writing code not so much better. If it is simple and easy it certainly can do, but for anything more complex it seems that it is faster and more reliable to do myself (and probably cheaper)