Wages are based on supply and demand. If you increase the supply of engineers essentially infinitely, with the same demand, the pay approaches zero. Companies

Wages are based on supply and demand. If you increase the supply of engineers essentially infinitely, with the same demand, the pay approaches zero. Companies gladly outsource to countries where developer wages are lower -- and that's with issues like time zones and language barriers. What if you could outsource to an AI that works whatever hours you want, even around the clock, and speaks perfectly in your native language? > Dev tools made programmers many times more productive. Do employees just stop hiring as many programmers? If programmers were less efficient, companies would probably have to hire more of them, and more of other sorts of people too. Or they would hire the same amount, but just be forced to accept slower progress.