Scott Adams

I will present the other side, though.

David Sachs made a post recently that said, here's a narrative violation, and it showed that there was a huge number of job listings for software engineers.

Um, I think it was, you know, indeed, I think this is the same, probably the same graph where it said software jobs are up 11% year over year and it's much more than other jobs.

Like it looked to me like the trend for overall job listings was going down, but there was a sudden spike over the last few months for software jobs like software engineering, programming jobs.

And that makes sense to me because when you have AI,

able to make you, let's say, 50% more productive or 100% more productive or 500% more productive.

then a lot of things that used to not be worth doing are suddenly worth doing.

Or they're just much cheaper and so you can get a better return on what you're doing.

Or you might want to do more things internally that you might have outsourced to some other software company or some other outside thing before.

Or even a contract with another company to do some service for you where you're like, well now we can do that ourselves for much cheaper.

I think this is also creating the opposite opportunity, that for a lot of companies,

where they said, well, you know, I'm not going to hire another programmer because I'm not going to get enough return on my investment.

Now they're saying, well, you know, now I can get five times as much return on that investment.

And so I'm going to hire lots of programmers.

And I also want people who can help me implement AI throughout my business.

So now I need more programmers to be able to do that.

And so I think it is a double edged sword where tech companies

They may have a lot of more layoffs coming because if they already have armies of people and they have lots and lots of expertise, then they can leverage the expertise of their most senior people and they might not need all the junior programmers.

I would go back to when I was at a startup and I had one really super programmer that worked for me.

And he understood the whole system and he could do everything.