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0 pointsbrookst3y ago0 comments

You seem to be saying that there is fixed demand for programmers and oversupply means less hiring.

But the history of technology says that demand is recursive; the more tech produced, the more demand there is for producers.

There may be a time when we hit the old “the whole world only needs 5 computers”[0] limit, but I don’t think we’re anywhere close. AI is providing leverage to create net more programming; it is not replacing programmers in a zero sum game.

0. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/feb/21/computing...

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flippinburgers3y ago

Sounds a bit too much like a perpetual motion machine to me.

nmcfarl3y ago

I’ve got a computer in all of my light switches. There’s a limit to this, but I’m not quite sure where it is.

brookstOP3y ago

Isn’t that true of any economy? Think of how many people are employed in general. How could this number of people have been employed 200 years ago?

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