[jononor]

Basically all companies over a certain size will need software development capabilities, just to improve their internal processes. There are over 350'000 companies with over 250 employees. If they have just 3 full-time equivalents each, that is still 1M jobs. With increasing degree of automation in companies in general, the potential value created from software increases. Many industries are still in the start of their digital transformation, even if they started over 10 years ago. Even in modern economies, many business processes are largely ran based primarily on humans with pen and paper. Even with vastly better tooling, I do not think the job market for developer will go down in the next 20 years. We will just create more software, tackle more problems. And the role of the human will continuously evolve along with our tools.