Comment by firesteelrain

> If this hadn't been the case, the industry as a whole can likely work with 40% - 50% less people eventually. Thats because at any given point in time even with a large monolithic codebase only 10 - 20% of the code base is in active evolution, what that means in microservices world is equivalent amount teams are sitting idle.

I think it depends on the industry. In safety critical systems, you need to be testing, making documentation, architectural artifacts, meeting with customers, etc

There's not that much idle time. Unless you mean idle time actually writing code and that's not always a full time job.