Ethan Mollick
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Jul
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If you look at majors in the US, everyone switched to software development.
Even before AI, software development hiring started to drop.
Everyone responded to this by switching their majors and hiring became less.
And what you see happen now with the rise of cloud code is it's not about writing as much code as it was before.
It's about being a manager of software engineers, about thinking about where things need to go, what tests to write, what's something good or bad enough.
So the nature of the O-ring changed from, can I write good code that isn't spaghetti code, to,
can I be a good software engineer and think in this higher level?
And that might be something the AIs do next.
Then there'll be another stop in this.
So these bottlenecks are going to be ever changing inside jobs in the economy where people like suddenly, you know, suddenly AI does this well, but now the next tension becomes it doesn't do this well.
And then the other thing is competitive advantage.
It turns out that, you know, tokens are really expensive.
AI can do many jobs, but you don't want to do all those jobs.
Humans are sometimes cheaper or better than the AI at doing particular work.
And we see for a long time, as long as we're token constrained, that there's more work to do than there is necessarily AI even to do it.
So I think we're going to see a lot of weirdness happen.
There's going to be a lot of chaos and confusion.
The big picture view people always take is the industrial revolution, which
All three of our industrial revolutions have worked out well in the end.
People got more jobs in the end than they started with.
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