Codesmith Founder on becoming a SWE in the world of AI: "I don't know what the route is to that level [of tacit knowledge] for people not already in the system".

I can give me personal opinion on this comment only that is unrelated and not an statement regarding Codesmith and or its leadership. I hate others say "this time is different" but I feel like that's the case... If an engineer produces 10X the raw output (and potentially more) for the same salary, then even in a world where there is demand for the skill of programming, we might just not need as many. Like if the productivity output is so much higher, I think it can be enough to both see an expansion of the need for code-writers but not a need for many more engineers. Maybe 50% of the engineers we have now can write all the code humanity needs, and the others need to do a new job.