Comment on Tech's Dumbest Mistake: Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything
cestvrai@lemm.ee 2 months agoIn my experience, you actually need more people to maintain and extend existing software compared to the initial build out.
Usually because of scalability concerns, increasing complexity of the system and technical debt coming due.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 months ago
Most extension today is enshitification. We’ve also seen major platforms scale to the size of Earth.
If you’re only going to maintain and don’t have a plan on adding features outside of duct taping AI to the software, what use is it maintaining a dev team at the size you needed it to be when creating new code?