Comment by 988747
3 years ago
I read an article some time ago with the reasoning that went like this:
"The goal of software development is to automate things. So, in principle, with time there should be less demand for software development skills because most of the hard work has already been done, and we have better, more high level tools. The only reason we see demand for software developers growing is because we let the bad developers in :) Bad developer can easily generate 2 FTEs per year, by introducing subtle bugs in code that someone has to find and fix. "
Anyone here has the actual source ?
If you believe in the Jevons paradox [1], you can explain it without reaching for "bad developers".
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
Most work going on is feature work in my experience. Not bug fixes.
A new feature will take longer to implement on top of a badly designed or misbehaving dependency.
Where do you work and are you hiring?
You're assuming that management actually cares about fixing bugs.
There's a much more obvious resolution to this problem that applies to the economy writ large.