Comment by threethirtytwo

I think it's more insidious then this.

It's easy to fall into a negative mindset because the justification is real and what we see is just the beginning.

Obviously we are not at a point where developers aren't needed. But One developer can do more. And that is a legitimate reason to higher less developers.

The impending reality of the upward moving trendline is that AI becomes so capable that it can replace the majority of developers. That future is so horrifying that people need to scaffold logic to unjustifiy it.