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:

  1. AI will take all programming jobs (usually advanced by people selling AI)
  2. 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:

Source: AI’s effects on programming jobs | Seldo.com

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