> Besides, these things have a way of surprising us. Before compilers, people wrote machine code by hand. It would have been reasonable to think that compilers

> Besides, these things have a way of surprising us. Before compilers, people wrote machine code by hand. It would have been reasonable to think that compilers would reduce the demand for programmers, but the opposite happened. I see this reasoning a lot but for me it kinda screams "correlation is not causation". As time passed and technology advanced it was simply more widely used, both on a consumer and business level. Very well may be that if we had to write machine code by hand we would need 10x more developers and a salary of $1kk/year would be average at best. Do you really think if we get some AI agent that can write a wholly working application based on natural language specification that wouldn't significantly reduce the need for human devs?