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> Well, its sad, but I am likely replacing 3 people on their team.

Are you capturing this value? Are you getting paid 4x as much as before? If you are not capturing this increase in the value of your work, who is? If you're not getting paid 4x as much as before, which I doubt you are, why are you doing this?

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I am getting paid significantly more than a year ago, but definitely not 4x as much. However, I have a lot more free time than I did before. And this while working on my own side projects as well; which are slowly growing into ramen-profitability. There are also other things to factor in, like living in South East Asia at a low cost of living and billing US and EU standard rates.

> why are you doing this?

Because I love doing this? Both web and software development are passions, AI feels like a lever; and making my money with this is nothing short of a dream come true.

Not why you build software man, why are you taking 3 jobs and foregoing receiving 3 salaries.

Because they are willing to pay my asking rate. Maybe it’s 3 jobs, but for me it’s still one. I can’t help that their 3 other devs aren’t as productive. I’m not here to defend them either. Absolutely quite some companies are going this route, it’s not a unique situation either. What should I do? Not adapt and complain about the job market? Using AI -IDEs since day one, I also see the writings on the wall, so I’m also taking advantage of these things (like anyone should).

You're absolutely right. The rational thing for you to do is to enable further exploitation of your own class and hand over the extra profit on a silver plate to others.

Either you adapt, or you don't. But this is what's coming for all software/web & IT jobs. I am not making up the rules of the game; neither am I sitting here and be bitter about it.

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