[dougabug]

It’s not a zero sum game. There isn’t some fixed, finite demand for software. There’s no upper bound on how much value can be created by skilled, imaginative software engineers, and a programmer can be productive with a relatively inexpensive set of tools (i.e., a computer and Internet access, which pretty much everybody has today).

If software is eating the world, eventually almost all jobs will in some aspects be software jobs, analogous to how 98% of the population used to be engaged in some aspect of agricultural production. We should focus on providing people with the productivity amplifying tools which might sustain a high quality standard of living.