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All the "AI software engineer" hype is about one thing: suppressing developer wages. Steve Jobs used to do this covertly, to some extent, with his "no cold call" anti-poaching agreements.

It's a multi-prong attack. One angle is the interest rates and mass layoffs. Another angle is AI. There are more ridiculous ones, such as this "study" that claims 10% of devs do literally no work: https://x.com/yegordb/status/1859290734257635439 - I expect many such studies to be conducted and generously funded by the industry in the coming years.

The big irony is how all this talk will lead to a decrease in the software engineer supply. Why would anyone choose a career that's about to die?