Comment by henriquegodoy

I'm seeing a real-world example of Jevons paradox playing out here. When AI coding tools first emerged, everyone predicted mass developer unemployment. Instead, I'm watching demand for skilled developers actually increase.

What's happening is that all this "vibe coded" software needs someone to fix it when it breaks. I've been getting more requests than ever to debug AI-generated codebases where the original "developer" can't explain what any of it does. The security audit work alone is keeping me busy - these AI-generated apps often have vulnerabilities that would never pass a human code review. It reminds me of when WordPress democratized web development. Suddenly everyone could build a website, but that just created a massive market for developers who could fix broken WordPress sites, migrate databases, and patch security holes. The difference now is the scale and complexity. At least with WordPress, there was some underlying structure you could reason about. With vibe coding, you get these sprawling codebases where the AI has reinvented the wheel five different ways in the same project, used deprecated libraries because they were in its training data, and created bizarre architectural decisions that only make sense if you don't understand the problem domain.

So yeah, the jobs aren't disappearing - they're just shifting from "build new features" to "fix the mess the PM made last weekend when they tried to ship their own feature."