alt Hacker NewsCurrent generation "AI" has already largely solved cheaper, faster, and more reliable. But it hasn't figured out how to curb demand. So far, the more software we build, the more people want even more software. Much like is told in the lump of labor fallacy, it appears that there is no end to finding productive uses for software. And certainly that has been the "common wisdom" for at least the last couple of decades; that whole "software is eating the world" thing.
What changed in the last month that has you thinking that a demand wall is a real possibility?
I agree the pie can grow, but I don’t know that the profession survives in its current form. Whether the next form is personally profitable for those of us who’ve sunk a decade+ into the SWE skillset remains to be seen.
I selfishly hope it is, but imo it’s simply to early to tell.