I feel like people who write articles like this have never worked at big companies.
My wife works at Shutterstock, first as a SWE, now as a product manager. Most of their tasks involve small changes in 5 different systems. Sometimes in places like Salesforce. A simple ask can be profoundly complicated.
AI has certainly made grokking, and code changes easier. But the real cost of building has not been reduced 90%. Not even close.
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