We've been automating stuff for 60 years, and it only leads to more automation.
At the end of the day, the more automation, the more people you need making sure things work.
There's always going to be a minimal bottleneck for how much an engineer can oversee if they need to do zero implementation.
We're not as far from that point as people think.
Most languages most things are developed in are 10x more expensive than languages of yore.
Rust has a bad reputation for being hard, but it is actually quite expressive.
Less than 50% of what engineers do is code.
IBM was famous, in the early 2000s, for the average dev writing one line of code per day on average.
We're just going to move to a world where the average dev spends <10% of their time coding, but there's likely to be x times more work, so it mostly evens out.
At the end of the day, the more automation, the more people you need making sure things work.
There's always going to be a minimal bottleneck for how much an engineer can oversee if they need to do zero implementation.
We're not as far from that point as people think.
Most languages most things are developed in are 10x more expensive than languages of yore.
Rust has a bad reputation for being hard, but it is actually quite expressive.
Less than 50% of what engineers do is code.
IBM was famous, in the early 2000s, for the average dev writing one line of code per day on average.
We're just going to move to a world where the average dev spends <10% of their time coding, but there's likely to be x times more work, so it mostly evens out.