Jason Calacanis

And when the amount of code explodes and you get 10x or 100x more code, the complexity also rises as well.

So look, we're not hiring 10 times more engineers, but you do need more engineers now to manage all of that code.

The other thing that's happening is that there's been an explosion of the use of code across the economy by different businesses, different applications, and different use cases.

I'm hearing from people who are now...

hiring software engineers who never would have hired them before.

I was talking to a fund manager, and he said that his next two hires were not going to be data analysts.

They were going to be software developers because they're now deploying code for the first time in ways that they were not before.

This goes back to my point about cloud proficiency being the most marketable skill right now in the economy.

People are using these tools in entirely new ways.

I think that we're at the outset of a boom right now caused by bespoke software proliferating throughout the economy and being used by firms that never thought of themselves as tech firms before, all of which is leading to more productivity.

And that leads to a healthier economy.

And that leads to more job creation.

And you're seeing that again in the aggregate numbers.

And that doesn't even include the blue-collar boom that's happening right now.

With the development of all this infrastructure, the data centers, and the new energy and power generation, we are seeing hundreds of thousands of new construction jobs being created.

Among blue collars, Jay Kahn, I'm sure you don't want them losing their jobs by turning this boom off.

So again, you know- No, I never advocate it.

Maybe at some point in the future, you'll be right.

Like the Trotskyite, communism has never been tried.

Maybe it'll work in the future.