There are certainly more programmers now than when you had to build a program by wiring together vacuum tubes, or even manually manage memory. Hollywood definit

There are certainly more programmers now than when you had to build a program by wiring together vacuum tubes, or even manually manage memory. Hollywood definitely didn't employ 2.5 million people back in the silent film era when film-making tools were much less productive. That's Jevon's Paradox, increased efficiency increases demand. Labor is like 30% of an airline ticket, and that counts not just the flight crew, so efficiency doesn't do much much for demand when jet fuel is pricey. Likewise there's only so many Xrays that are justified to give out. There's an infinite amount of software crud to be created, and it's primary input is programmers.