Comment by lelanthran

> Classic Jevons Paradox - when something gets cheaper the market for it grows. The unit cost shrinks but the number of units bought grows more than this shrinkage.

That's completely disconnected from whether software developer salaries decrease or not, or whether the software developer population decreases or not.

The introduction of the loom introduced many many more jobs, but these were low-paid jobs that demanded little skill.

All automation you can point to in history resulted in operators needing less skill to produce, which results in less pay.

There is no doubt (i.e. I have seen it) that lower-skilled folk are absolutely going to crush these elitists developers who keep going on about how they won't be affected by automated code-generation, it will only be those devs that are doing unskilled mechanical work.

Sure - because prompting requires all that skill you have? Gimme a break.