Dev laments: enterprise products built over 20 years can now be replicated by AI in 10-20 hours
saibharadwaj · x · 2026-10-29
Developer saibharadwaj reflects on the software industry: enterprise products that took teams 10-20 years to build and sell to millions of homes can now be built in 10-20 hours with AI. He adds that an Amazon software engineer was confident engineers will remain needed in the AI era, but admitted he had barely used agentic models, AI IDEs, or recent chatbots — optimism without first-hand exposure.
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