Cheaper software has increased the number of software engineers a company needs, not reduced it.

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• There is a world where AI coding tools change nothing except that engineers are happier, and for a lot of companies that is not good enough to keep paying for. DRDax Raad27 May 2026similar wording
• The number of software engineers at NVIDIA will grow, not shrink, because the purpose of a job and the tasks it uses are related but not the same, as radiology already showed. JHJensen Huang23 Mar 2026similar wording
• Software only gets good by being used a lot by the people building it, so time spent inside coding agents instead of the app is time that makes the app worse. BVBen Vinegar6 Sept 2026similar wording
• Predicting that AI would write 90% of the code was never a prediction that we would need 90% fewer software engineers. DADario Amodei13 Feb 2026similar wording
• Software developer salaries reached stupidly high levels because of a scarcity of people who could build things, and that scarcity is ending. PSPeter Steinberger12 Feb 2026similar wording

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