Sam Altman says AI will make coders 10x more productive, not replace them

This must be the new talking point. Heard my dad say the exact same thing (hes a finance guy who loves podcasts and talking with sharks). Parents wanted to know if I thought AI was why I was having a hard time getting back into software, NO! They friggen offshored it all to India you out of touch bozos!

I wonder how much / quickly we’ll find out that raw intelligence is not the bottleneck. Writing ten times more code would probably make me slam face first into a ton of other bottlenecks.

If there is the same amount of work (debatable but plausible), and developers are 10x as efficient, doesn’t that mean you need 1&#x2F;10 the workers? Businesses aren’t noted for their charitable employment of needless workers, so you could re-phrase Altman’s statement as: “90% of developers will be redundant”. Replaced by AI, if you will…<p>Or, of course, there could be 10x the work suddenly made available. Probably homed right next to this bridge I happen to have for sale…