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Comment by flockonus | Hacker News Reader

There is some irony being a developer and reading along the lines of: "oh look at the comparison between these models executing a task for a few cents on a job i'd be charging 1k minimum"

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FYI, developers are rarely given such a rich UX mock.

Depends who you work with, what's the intention, budget, etc. I'd agree this is a really good one.

I'm used to incremental Figma wireframe -> final product and working together with a designer.

I don't think I'd say rarely. Companies rarely allocate the design resources to produce that, but the companies that do are typically much larger, so the actual number of individual developers that get rich mocks is probably closer to 40-50%.

I’d say rarely in the sense that out of the 500 times (not really that much over 30 years) I’ve built similar things, I got UX mockups this detailed maybe 10% pf the time.

I know what you're saying but this is the most tedious, soul crushing dev work there is

meh I have no interest in that type of software dev anyway

Unfortunately, as soon as they can’t find work, everybody interested in the more easily automated dev work will suddenly become very interested in up-skilling into all other kinds of dev work. So then you have an excess supply, which means little job security and littler salaries. Developers were in the cool kid club in SV because it was more painful to fill dev roles than to treat developers with kid gloves. Without high labor demand, there is no leverage for developers. Increasingly, management has the leverage. Oh well.

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