[adrianhoward]

I'm not @meriksson - but I feel the same way.

They're going to become more scarce because computing is being used in more and more places. The demand for developers is increasing - not decreasing - and I don't see any change in that in the next decade minimum.

Yes there are more folk coming into the field. Yes there are more places where smart code is letting people do more with less. Despite that I think it's harder now to find good developers than it was ten years back because the spaces where you need developers us growing stupidly fast.

[markkanof]

I agree with your assertion and also think that the increased demand for developers in more places is creating a lot of noise which makes it difficult to match up qualified developers with software that needs to be written. This in itself could be a business idea. Recruiters and job boards are a pretty inefficient way to solve the problem. There have been some startups previously featured on HN that are trying to fix that problem, but I think the field is still wide open.

[meriksson]

I agree strongly that this is a wide open space. As an employer I would pay handsomely for recruiting services that I actually believed in. Of all the concepts floating around, I particularly like the idea of programmers having agents, like actors have. I have experimented a bit with this model myself and expect to see a lot of innovation in this area.

[mdonahoe]

What did your experimentation entail? I am curious.

Contracting?