[spacebanana7]

AI is unlikely to take away jobs from software engineers. There’s no natural upper bound on the amount of software people can consume - unlike cars, food or houses.

Software engineers ultimately are people with “will to build”. Just as hedge fund people have a “will to trade”. The code or tooling is just a means to an end.

[spencerflem]

Huh, I have the opposite feeling- that people already have most of the software they want a this point.

[spacebanana7]

Think about your browsing history over the last year. You’ve probably consumed an obscene amount of React components, maybe millions.

Your car has way more code than a decade ago and so does your TV.

These things might make you miserable but it’s still “demand” in the economic sense of the term. It keeps developers employed.

[hnhn34]

>Think about your browsing history over the last year. You’ve probably consumed an obscene amount of React components, maybe millions.

Yeah, most of which are rehashes of the same thing, and most of them on the same ~10 websites.

[eacapeisfutuile]

640k should be enough for anybody