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>the multiplier effect of AI is being used to reduce head count more than to drastically increase net output of a team This simply isn’t how economics works. T
by emp17344 8mo ago
>the multiplier effect of AI is being used to reduce head count more than to drastically increase net output of a team
This simply isn’t how economics works. There is always additional demand, especially in the software space. Every other productivity-boosting technology has resulted in an increase in jobs, not a decrease.
- Rover222 8mo agoWell that's certainly and obviously how it's working at the moment in the software industry. We're in the transition between traditional coding jobs and agentic managers (or something like that)
- reverius42 8mo agoIt's kind of inexplicable though, unless AI being the reason for layoffs is a lie, because it's true that historically there has always been way more demand for software than people who can make it (hence the decades of rising salaries relative to other professions). It seems like too much of a coincidence that the AI got good enough to replace humans at exactly the same time that humans in general don't need as much software made.