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New comment by mikert89 in "Ask HN: How much money do you spend monthly on subscriptions for AI models?"

mikert89 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 01:05:00 +0000

350$

New comment by mikert89 in "Ask HN: How are you finding the job market in 2026?"

mikert89 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:09:08 +0000

Where do you find clients?

New comment by mikert89 in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

mikert89 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 22:44:37 +0000

it certainly has, SWE wages have dropped and continue to do so

New comment by mikert89 in "Grok 4.6"

mikert89 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 22:09:54 +0000

benchamaxxing is easy, fable still seems organically more intelligent

New comment by mikert89 in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

mikert89 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:43:55 +0000

This is cope, ai coding agents will follow the path of self driving cars. They will be watched with extreme caution, but will slowly but surely expand outwards. Eventually manually writing code will be considered a dangerous/bug introducing act

New comment by mikert89 in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

mikert89 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:43:04 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law

New comment by mikert89 in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

mikert89 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:45:56 +0000

You aren’t getting it. They can pay their engineers half what they used to, you don’t need the same level of skill to build photoshop. Yes, you need a bunch of engineers, but they will be driving coding agents, not writing code by hand. They can be hired and fired for cheap

New comment by mikert89 in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

mikert89 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:33:03 +0000

the future is already here, its just not evenly distributed

New comment by mikert89 in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

mikert89 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:54:53 +0000

i think this is farther off, much sooner is just the subjugation of technical workers to be low skill drivers of LLMs

New comment by mikert89 in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

mikert89 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:54:21 +0000

no programming is verifiable, and the major LLM companies are focused on it. its the first domino to fall by probably 5+ years

New comment by mikert89 in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

mikert89 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:53:38 +0000

hahaha i was laughing too, of all companies for someone to defend

New comment by mikert89 in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

mikert89 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:48:07 +0000

ive worked at multiple FAANG, almost always been the only american on a team of 10. theres some huge push by corporations to deny it to justify shipping in more foreign labor.

New comment by mikert89 in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

mikert89 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:44:50 +0000

amazon is crammed full of indians, its one of the worst offenders. i spent 5 years at the company

also nothing impressive about a senior SDE there, maybe 10 years ago it was impressive, best talent has either moved on or is L7+

New comment by mikert89 in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

mikert89 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:41:53 +0000

have you been inside a big tech company? there arent many american fresh grads working there, its mostly foreign

New comment by mikert89 in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

mikert89 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:38:39 +0000

have you been inside any big tech company? lots of orgs are > 80% foreign.

New comment by mikert89 in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering"

mikert89 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:36:39 +0000

right but we have never seen a tool like this

New comment by mikert89 in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

mikert89 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:35:22 +0000

ofcourse not, but they can pay someone 80k a year to work on the backlog, whereas maybe they used to pay 175k. its not about work going down, its the skill set needed to complete the work is lower than ever, and they need less people than ever

New comment by mikert89 in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

mikert89 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:30:35 +0000

I think the field is basically over as a long term career unless you are truly exceptional. It will become very easy to build most software, and the upper end will be filled with the top people in the country/from abroad.

Wages are certainly going down for most software roles

New comment by mikert89 in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

mikert89 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:29:28 +0000

AI gives more leverage to exceptional people, its an amplifier not an extender

New comment by mikert89 in "Ethical Cold Outreach"

mikert89 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:39:02 +0000

I'll say this, people are seriously underestimating how sophisticated ai outbound sales has gotten. There are certainly startups where 1/3 of the engineers are focused on "go to market engineering", which is a mix of ai messaging and data engineering to automate sales. Its becoming more important than the product in some verticals, people are hand building their own systems