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AI Productivity Gains May Increase Demand for Software Engineers

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Leo Boytsov@srchvrs#590inTech

In fact, not only are software engineering jobs not going away due to AI, there might even be an increase in demand for software engineers. When software (or anything else) gets cheaper to create due to technological productivity improvements, people will buy a lot more software (in econ jargon, software is highly “price elastic”). ↩️

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"The self-selected nature of the dataset means that we can’t draw strong conclusions based on this study alone, but it does reinforce many other lines of evidence that vibe-coding and agentic engineering patterns are quite different. " ↩️

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Leo Boytsov@srchvrs

The difference is that the amount of calories people consume is relatively fixed — even a 25% increase led to the obesity epidemic — whereas the amount of software produced has grown a millionfold. Modern cars have something like a hundred million lines of code running on their various on-board computer 🟦 https://www.normaltech.ai/p/why-ai-hasnt-replaced-software-engineers

Leo Boytsov@srchvrs

Historically, this has been the pattern — programmer employment in the U.S. has grown from near-zero around 1950 to millions today. This is sharply different from occupations such as agriculture in which labor demand was famously decimated due to mechanization and automation. ↩️

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Leo Boytsov@srchvrs

Historically, this has been the pattern — programmer employment in the U.S. has grown from near-zero around 1950 to millions today. This is sharply different from occupations such as agriculture in which labor demand was famously decimated due to mechanization and automation. ↩️

Leo Boytsov@srchvrs

In fact, not only are software engineering jobs not going away due to AI, there might even be an increase in demand for software engineers. When software (or anything else) gets cheaper to create due to technological productivity improvements, people will buy a lot more software (in econ jargon, software is highly “price elastic”). ↩️

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