Agreed, though to your point I think we'll end up seeing more induced demand long-term - This will enable more software to be built and maintained by same or f

Agreed, though to your point I think we'll end up seeing more induced demand long-term - This will enable more software to be built and maintained by same or fewer people (initially). Things that we wouldn't previously bother to do are now possible. - More software means more problems (not just LLM-generated bugs which can be handled by test suites and canary deploys, but overall features and domains of what software does) - This means skilled SWEs will still be in demand, but we need to figure out how to leverage them better. - Many codebases will be managed almost entirely by agents, effectively turning it into the new "build target". This means we need to build more tooling to manage these agents and keep them aligned on the goal, which will be a related but new discipline. SWEs would need to evolve skillsets but wasn't that always the deal?