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The point isn’t to increase employee productivity (or employee happiness, obviously).
The point is to replace most employees.
In order for that to happen, LLM-assisted entry-level developers merely need to be half as good as expert human unassisted developers, at scale, at a lower aggregate cost.
Entry-level devs ain't replacing anyone. One senior dev is going to be doing the work of a whole team
For now.
But when a mid-tier or entry level dev can do 60% of what a senior can do, it’ll be a great way to cut costs.
I don’t think we’re there now. It’s just that that’s the ultimate goal - employ fewer people, and pay the remaining people you do employ less.
is there like a character sheet somewhere so i can know where i fall on this developer spectrum
It's going to be your INT bonus modifier, but you can get a feat that also adds the WIS modifier
For prolonged coding sessions you do need CON saving throws, but you can get advantage from drinking coffee (once per short rest)
I must have picked up a feat somewhere because I hit that shit way more than once per short rest