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> 120K a year developer, if it makes them even 20% more efficient (doubt that), you have a ceiling of $2000/mo

I don't think businesses sees it this way. They sort of want you to be 20% more efficient by being 20% better (with no added cost). I'm sure the math is, if their efficiency is increased by 20% then than means we can reduce head count by 20% or not hire new developers.

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Oh its much worse than that - they think that most developers don't do anything and the core devs are just supported by the ancillary devs, 80% of the work in core devs and 20% otherwise.

In many workplaces this is true. That means an "ideal" workspace is 20% of the size of its current setup, with AI doing all the work that the non-core devs used to do.

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