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Comment by achierius | original | All AI-generated code should be Open Source
[−]achierius · 2026-11-15 Sun 15:52 UTC · link
I agree with you on most things but man

> It’s not about the money, most of us have saved enough.

This is incredibly detached from reality. Most software engineers care more about money than they do about abstract notions of software from. Most certainly have not saved enough.

[−]sashank_1509 · 2026-11-15 Sun 16:05 UTC · link
Fair enough, Im talking about Bay Area software engineers, most of whom have saved enough. Maybe not enough to live in the Bay Area whose house prices keep increasing with no end in sight, but plenty for elsewhere in the US (or the world) for that matter.