Comment by corysama

The paradox is usually presented as:

The People: Hey local government! The roads are so packed with cars they are useless. Fix it!

The Government: We hear you and just finished a huge road expansion project. The roads now have 2x the capacity! Enjoy the new fast roads!

The People: The roads are just as slow as before because they are packed with 2X as many cars now!

So, the paradox is that greatly increasing the capacity of the roads led to the roads being just as slow as before. Maybe even slower. This is because there previously were lots of potential uses of the roads that people did not enact because it would not have been worth the hassle. But, now with 2X the capacity, those uses become viable. So, more people find more uses of the roads up until it gets right back to the limit of everyone patience.

Apply this to coding and you can predict: Coding is much faster and easier now. So, why are all my coders still so busy?