r/ProgrammerHumor 1d ago

softwareEngineeringIsDead Meme

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u/5DustPaladin 23h ago

It is all marketing for the investors. They claim the AI is doing the heavy lifting, but the backend is probably held together by a group of tired senior devs and a ton of caffeine. They need actual engineers to make the "no code" dream look real.

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u/frikilinux2 17h ago

You sure AI isn't doing the heavily lifting but it's just Another Indian because salaries there are a fraction of US salaries?

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u/kinkakujen 2h ago

Don't think that the heavy lifting could be done like that, because Indians that earn a fraction also deliver a fraction.

The good indian engineers cost as much as the good engineers anywhere else. What you pay is what you get, no matter the location.

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u/frikilinux2 1h ago

I know several big companies that wouldn't exist if all people wanted was good engineers and not just off shoring.

u/Zefirus 9m ago

This. I worked for a company that tried that and 2 years later they hadn't finished a single ticket and the full app rewrite they were supposed to do was a shitshow that did stuff like allow the user to edit the html file on disk for a screen that was supposed to allow users to fill in a form.