There may be more overall developers - they won't be writing code directly. There will be fewer people writing code directly. They'll be using tools that utili

There may be more overall developers - they won't be writing code directly. There will be fewer people writing code directly. They'll be using tools that utilize AI to build software. The AI will be writing the code. In the future there will be a lot more jobs watching and assisting and using robots in factories as well. The net count of factory workers will be lower than whatever the peak was (whether we're referring to the peak in eg the US or China). This is how corporations will boost margins even further in the tech field. AI writing code will be considerably cheaper than what big tech has been paying (which isn't to say big tech will eliminate all of their code writing jobs, just a lot of them). Peak code writing employment has occurred in the US, the latest tech layoffs are the end of that era (and will be recognized as such in hindsight). Software developer will typically no longer be understood to mean a person that writes code, the terms will change (and most likely that'll happen this decade). Only older developers will still think of it in those terms. Oh, you mean, like, you write the code directly? Dude, what century are you from?