Will AI Displace Software Engineers?
AI, Jevons Paradox, and the Future of Software Engineering The year is 1994. A groundbreaking technology is proliferating—one that would expose all of human knowledge to everyone, anywhere in the world. Industries relying on information scarcity trembled. Newspapers, encyclopedias, travel agents, and countless others faced an existential threat. That technology was the Internet, and while it did eliminate many jobs, it created exponentially more. Entire categories of work—social media managers, SEO specialists, app developers—emerged that would have been impossible to predict....