Why We Will Never Have Enough Software Developers

Anyone who’s spent a few months at a sizable tech company can tell you that a lot of software seems to exist primarily because companies have hired people to write and maintain them. In some ways, the software serves not the business, but the people who have written it, and then those who need to maintain it. This is stupid, but also very, very tru... See more

Been receiving lots of questions about this from folks who expect AI engineers to result in a wave of mass unemployment. I think the crux of the question is whether there can be such a thing as "too much code" in the world. As farming productivity skyrocketed in the last few… Show more