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GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out.
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2025
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It's because we're expensive. That's the long and short of it.
10 developers in Silicon Valley can run you $1-$2m in salary alone (it's more expensive with benefits added).
The industry constantly conspires to keep the salary of software engineers down. It does it cyclically too. In 2008 I was told I would have no problem getting a 6 figure job when I graduated by 2013. Of course the economy had other ideas. Same thing with the dot Com bubble.
I currently make double what I did 10 years ago. It doesn't actually matter much as inflation and a divorce has had my costs balloon just as much, but it's still loads more than any other job out there.
They'll get what they want, one way or another. Then when none of their shit works they inevitably come back begging us and we request better pay and benefits again, because we know they do this. They don't learn, much like those reliant on AI.
10 engineers in the Bay Area would easily be 2-3 million without additional benefits or support personnel
Yeah, you're probably right. If they had my level of experience they're easily pulling in twice what I do as a rule of thumb