[yoden]

The demand for human radiologists never actually went down, though[1]. There is improved efficiency due to technology, but it hasn't kept up with increased demand for scanning and increased patient volumes. There's also induced demand caused by efficiency increasing. Diagnostic AI tends to make different kinds of errors than a human, so even if it were better, both together is even stronger.

The "Radiologists are being replaced by technology" story has been repeated so many times by uninformed software developers that it has become popular wisdom, but the reality so far is that we need more radiologists than ever.

Ironically, radiology might be a decent proxy for what could happen with software engineering, but in the opposite way you intend.

[1] https://marvel-b1-cdn.bc0a.com/f00000000046012/info.vrad.com...