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by ukoki 500 days ago
> I’ve heard multiple times from execs in my company that “software” will have less value and that, in a few years, there won’t be as many developer jobs.

If LLMs make average devs 10x more productive, Jevon's Paradox[1] suggests we'll just make 10x more software rather than have 10x fewer devs. You can now implement that feature only one customer cares about, or test 10x more prototypes before building your product. And if you instead decide to decimate your engineering team, watch out because your competitors might not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox