About whether AI-assisted programming will create more developer jobs or eliminate most of them.
Has this happened?
Yes 96 (84%)Not sure 5 (4%)No 13 (11%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About whether AI-assisted programming will create more developer jobs or eliminate most of them.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
How likely do you think this is Simon?
I don't really know myself, but I think there's a decent change that most developer jobs will actually disappear. Your argument isn't wrong, but when we're nearing (though still far from) the state where all productive tech work can be handled by LLMs. Once it can effectively and correctly fix bugs and add new well-defined features to a real codebase, things start to look very different for most developers.