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> For software projects, there is always more work to do.

sure, but there is not more work that people will pay you to do; that's the important question

Software developers get paid to crunch out as much code as possible. If you work twice as fast, do you think your employer will let you slack off a bit because they ran out of work?

What really happens is that your bucket gets filled with more work, and now you are as busy as before. Or did someone else got fired because now you were working twice as fast as them?

Nope, in many countries software developers are office workers like everyone else, there is no salary tied to lines of code.

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