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But do they want to come back ?
Good point, I'll be up front about only replacing vibe code, not debugging it.
For double the salary probably, the problem is there's always a line of people looking for work.
That's why unions are important and for people to not be scabs
I am pro-union, but I won't deny that's utopic for now.
Unionizing people on your country? Feasible. But what then? Because with this AI race what they actually are doing is "ok, now I have a 'bot' that does a lot of your work, so I'm offering you half of your hourly rate. Oh, you don't accept it? Ok, let's substitute our whole mainland team for a remote one with people from LATAM/India/China for 1/3 of the hourly rate."
This shit ain't gonna end well in the long run.
It’s already not looking well. We’ve destroyed the United States, middle class and propped up all the middle classes of the countries you listed. I have no problem with the ladder, but I do have a problem with the former.
"more will come". never underestimate hungry star eyed folks. Look at Grammarly - they've been throwing people on the streets for the last three years showing zero loyalty to longterm employees and then replacing them with cheaper newbies over and over. And that after hoarding literally any NLP talent to make competition non-existent - so for NLP folks in Ukraine it means they have nowhere to go outside of military sector which is its own can of worms. Meanwhile Grammarly just keeps on pivoting to AI coding then hiring folks to clean the mess to pivot again.
Same thing for translation. They replaced us with AI and ask us to proofread and correct the mess for 1/4 the price. I stopped my translation career over this.
No, they prefer their jobs at Costco and McDonalds