Comment by user34283

My argument would be that while some complexity remains, it might not require a large team of developers.

What previously needed five devs, might be doable by just two or three.

In the article, he says there are no shortcuts to this part of the job. That does not seem likely to be true. The research and thinking through the solution goes much faster using AI, compared to before where I had to look up everything.

In some cases, agentic AI tools are already able to ask the questions about architecture and edge cases, and you only need to select which option you want the agent to implement.

There are shortcuts.

Then the question becomes how large the productivity boost will be and whether the idea that demand will just scale with productivity is realistic.