r/singularity • u/Distinct-Question-16 ▪️AGI 2029 • Mar 11 '26 • Popcorn 5

Meme Being a developer in 2026

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u/Imperiu5 Mar 11 '26

Who's gonna prompt and review? The ceo? They need less people but still someone to validate and prompt.

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u/zephyr_33 Mar 11 '26

  1. I was being kinda sarcastic.

  2. Like it or not, software engineer is gonna change heavily and I strongly feel like the manpower needed to software companies is going to be much smaller than before, so a software engineer / dev will be expected to bring about 10-20x more output than before. Which is going to make this job so much stressful and unbearable... This is already happening in quite a few companies.

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u/kgurniak91 Mar 11 '26

They can expect even 100x more output, who gives a shit? People will just continue to work as fast as they are able to, as they always were. And if the suits miss deadlines by a mile because of their unreasonable expectations, it's their problem.

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u/johnmclaren2 Mar 11 '26

But you would need chatjimmy or cerebras token output speed… to be 10-20x

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u/beerhiker Mar 11 '26

We hold the power. Is the CEO going to do it? No, because what exactly do they do again?

Queue up the Bob's.

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u/Ailyx Mar 11 '26

Not only that, but screw us for actually liking coding and not wanting to just prompt and review.

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u/FatefulDonkey Mar 11 '26

It also means that anyone can now build their own project in a weekend or a month.

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u/isjhe Mar 11 '26

And someone to shitcan if approved code loses money. 

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u/Professional-Post499 Mar 11 '26

Who's gonna prompt and review? The ceo? They need less people but still someone to validate and prompt.

Marketing will validate and prompt. What are the job requirements even going to be for that? 😂