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But would you rather get paid to spend your time doing the interesting and enjoying work, or the mundane and boring stuff? ;) My hope is that agents like Copilot can help us burn down the tedious stuff and make more time for the big value adds.

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Though I do not doubt your intentions to do what you think will make developers' lives better, can you be certain that your bosses, and their bosses, have our best interests in mind as well? I think it would be pretty naive to believe that your average CEO wouldn't absolutely love not to have to pay developers at all.

But this way the developers can spend all their time working on the truly interesting problems, like how to file for unemployment.

If that were possible it would happen anyway. You can’t hold back progress.

It’s very, very far from possible today.

The profile indicates he's a product manager, not a developer.

Not everyone gets to do the fun stuff. That's for people higher up in the chain, with more connections, or something else. I like my paycheck, and you're supposing that AI isn't going to take that away, and that we'll get to live in a world where we all work on "fun stuff". That is a real pie-in-the-sky dream you have, and it simply isn't how the world works. Back in the real world, tech jobs are already scarce and there's a lot of people that would be happy to do the boring mundane stuff so they can feed their family.

But working on interesting things is mentally taxing while the tedious tasks aren't, I can't always work at full bore so having some tedium can be a relief.

Id just rather get paid

The only reason to listen to this would be to be naive about how capitalism works. Come on..

The goal here is for it to be able to do everything, taking 100% of the work

2nd best is to do the hard, big value adds so companies can hire cheap labor for the boring shit

3rd best is to only do the mundane and boring stuff

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