There will be no demand for software for a while, as we did not need much in the first place.
I don’t think software is like some raw resource that can be accumulated and then consumed at a later date. In my own career as a dev, people are constantly coming up with new demands that have to be implemented to meet their needs.
I do agree that a lot of software made in the past 20 years was primarily made because someone (often not the devs making it) thought it would make them rich(er) in some way instead of actually “benefitting” humanity. My own hope is that however the economics of LLM-based AI work out, we’ll see a decline in this specific sort of software development taking up so much of the pool of available developer effort.
If companies are spending more on tokens than on developers to churn out software that is decidedly meh (which is all I’ve seen so far of the trend), I would expect the actually induces demand for human developers - either as a complement to “AI” or as competition to it.
I don’t think software is like some raw resource that can be accumulated and then consumed at a later date. In my own career as a dev, people are constantly coming up with new demands that have to be implemented to meet their needs.
I do agree that a lot of software made in the past 20 years was primarily made because someone (often not the devs making it) thought it would make them rich(er) in some way instead of actually “benefitting” humanity. My own hope is that however the economics of LLM-based AI work out, we’ll see a decline in this specific sort of software development taking up so much of the pool of available developer effort.
If companies are spending more on tokens than on developers to churn out software that is decidedly meh (which is all I’ve seen so far of the trend), I would expect the actually induces demand for human developers - either as a complement to “AI” or as competition to it.