By good, it is often meant to be in the 5% of the standard normal distribution. So "good" is an infinite shifting condition. When there are more developers, it

By good, it is often meant to be in the 5% of the standard normal distribution. So "good" is an infinite shifting condition. When there are more developers, it becomes just harder to be good enough. This scares therefore often novice off. They implicitly think that they have to be "really" smart to retain a life long job. I think that there are enough developers. But everybody is searching for the geniuses that can create a competitive advantage.