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It's pretty clear that if AI delivers on its promise it'll decimate the income of all but the top 1% developers Labor is worth less, capital and equity ownersh
by AstroBen 9mo ago
It's pretty clear that if AI delivers on its promise it'll decimate the income of all but the top 1% developers
Labor is worth less, capital and equity ownership make more or the same
- simonw 9mo agoI don't think that's a forgone conclusion yet. I continue to hope that we see the opposite effect: the drop of cost in software development drives massively increased demand for both software and our services. I wrote about that here: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/8/llm-predictions-for-2026/#3-years-the-coding-agents-jevons-paradox-for-software-engineering-will-resolve-one-way-or-the-other https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/8/llm-predictions-for-202...
- AstroBen 9mo agoI keep flip-flopping between being optimistic and pessimistic on this, but yeah we just need to wait and see