Ask HN: Is AI good for indies but bad for employees?

3 pointsamichail2 comments

For example, indie developers could benefit from programming help, while software engineers could lose their jobs.

You could think of it as increasing the density of potential output for a single person, for work that can be systematized. Let's just assume many of the challenges around control and accuracy are resolved.

So certainly it can be good for indie product builders that can create things which make repeatable services into saas. And it can help them do it faster on the LLM code side.

It may indeed lower demand for swe, but those who adapt and can use the tools to produce more per person will continue to be in demand.

I have never lacked for work cleaning up other people's code that almost works. I don't think that market is going away.

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