Comment Re:shakes head (Score 1) 94
Comment Re:They're not losing interest. (Score 1) 132
How does outsourcing reduce the need for a developer? The developer is still there, his paycheck is just being signed by someone else. How many people like that are they going to need, and will business analysts be qualified to do some of the work? Do they really need a CS grad? The number of coders, people who understand complex code and software, needed will reduce by a lot --- and it will accelerate as management starts to realize this. The effect is already happening. There are 20% less employed software developers in the US today than in 2019 (measured by ADP
Comment Re:They're not losing interest. (Score 2) 132
For good reason. I know people who, with zero coding knowledge
All they had is a little determination, a week or two to focus on it, and a few basics on prompting such as asking the AI the best way to do things.
AI walked them through every step, cloud sign up, domain name purchase and DNS, creating the graphics in a consistent style, listing the needed features they might be missing, and including setting up the developer account and all that. And that's in 2025/2026.
Presumably in 2027 an agent would do all that.
And no, masses of coders won't be needed to architect or maintain enterprise applications with existing codebases either.
Comment Re:"Eat the rich!" (Score 0) 123
Comment Re:Hollywood Accounting needs to be banned,prosecu (Score 0) 123
Comment I haven't seen the movie (Score 1) 123
The concept/idea is great, but I am like 90% sure they will F it up with bad writing and production. The trailers weren't great.
Comment You guys Team Coyote (Score 1) 123
Or Roadrunner?
Comment Elephant in the room (Score 0) 269
Comment Hollywood Accounting needs to be banned,prosecuted (Score 3, Interesting) 123
With a break-even number of $120 million, according to the Hollywood Accounting where the WB shell companies are all paying themselves in a circle, compared to the actual production cost of $30 million as indicated by the tax writeoff stated value...
Comment NK 3 Crypto (Score 1) 27
Comment Re:They are scared, billions gone, no chance for R (Score 1) 110
They want regulation to block competitors. Regulation makes startup investors quest, for good reason -- as it can easily prevent a business from succeeding.
Comment Re:Oh Noes! (Score 1) 70
Comment Re:and now i'm reminded of.... (Score 1) 19
They couldn't stop playing that song incessantly on MTV in the early (or mid?) nineties. It got to the point I really was wishing for a black hole sun to come.