[HN Gopher] Superstar coders are raking it in. Others, not so much
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       Superstar coders are raking it in. Others, not so much
        
       Author : bdcs
       Score  : 12 points
       Date   : 2025-07-01 16:08 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | bookofjoe wrote:
       | https://archive.ph/oV3L3
        
       | bgwalter wrote:
       | The rest of us non-AI-whizzes combined literally wrote 100% of
       | the functioning open source code that the AI-whizzes steal and
       | transform to an inferior product using Rube Goldberg agent
       | setups.
        
       | garciasn wrote:
       | From the article:
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       | the top of the pay scale were elite ai labs such as Openai, as
       | well as hedge funds such as Jane Street that are also betting
       | heavily on machine learning. In this tier, median pay exceeded
       | $400,000 a year. Below that were tech giants including Alphabet,
       | Microsoft and, until recently, Meta, where median pay was closer
       | to $300,000. Experienced developers at most other companies earn
       | much less. Their median was around $180,000 (see chart 2).
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       | A median of 180K is mostly definitely raking it in compared to
       | the median of all US employees.
       | 
       | I'm well over double the household median income in my metro area
       | and while I don't feel like I'm raking it in, I guess I am when
       | compared to others.
       | 
       | This just seems like a silly article.
        
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