AI’s effects on programming jobs
March 19, 2025

Doom and utopia are not our only options
There are two extreme takes on the impact of AI on programmer jobs:
- AI will take all programming jobs (usually advanced by people selling AI)
- AI will not take anyone’s job (usually advanced by grumpy older developers, which I usually am)
I would like to advance a third option, which is that AI will create many, many more programmers, and new programming jobs will look different.
Here’s why I believe this:
What impact will AI have on software development? Laurie Voss has a few thoughts.