Paradox in action
Matthew Berman·2026-02-28 21:21

We are writing more lines of code than ever in the history of software development. Everybody says software engineering jobs are going away completely. AI is going to be writing almost every single line of code by the end of this year.It turns out we still need software engineers. And we are seeing an uptick in hiring of human software engineers. At the same time that code is getting cheaper and cheaper to produce.When something gets cheaper that was previously constrained, the demand for it typically goes ...