Forgot your password?
typodupeerror

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 .. who processes most US paychecks). See this graph: https://flo.uri.sh/visualisati... That's a big deal.

Comment Re:They're not losing interest. (Score 2) 132

For good reason. I know people who, with zero coding knowledge .. like they can't print "hello world" let alone tell you what a for loop is, 100% vibe coded fully functional (has all the features they wanted it to have -- including a backend API on GCP/AWS) apps/games that are on the App Store (they aren't selling well, but that's due to marketing .. the features are fully implemented).

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 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...

Slashdot Top Deals

"I don't believe in sweeping social change being manifested by one person, unless he has an atomic weapon." -- Howard Chaykin

Working...