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by DrewADesign 21 days ago
The amount of work in any given market at any given time is finite. Beyond that, developers likely won’t even be the bottleneck if everyone is a 10x ultradev 3000.

> Has it ever been?

Well… yes? So very many industries shrank, even disappeared in practical terms, because efficiency, automation and technological improvements. Industrial revolution? Calculators? Computerized accounting? I mean the list is giant.