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What Happens to Software Engineering Salaries When Code Gets Cheap?

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Hi there! A couple of years ago, AI could autocomplete a function. Today it can write a whole feature while I go grab a coffee. Writing code has never been this cheap. If you're a software engineer, you've probably asked yourself the uncomfortable follow-up: if code is cheap, am I about to be cheap…

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  1. 2026-10-11 14:26 · DEV Community — AI
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