Is vibe coding eating developer jobs?

Key Takeaways

So, VIP coding has been coming for developer jobs for a full year now, but it's actually so far doing a miserable job at exactly that because look at this data. Overall, job postings in the US are year-over-year down 6%. However, software developer jobs are actually up 10%. What's at play here is something called Jevans paradox when it says that when you make a resource more efficient to use, people actually use a lot more of it. For example, let's say that you suddenly can drive twice as long on a liter of gasoline than you could uh yesterday. Well, most likely you'll start using your car for everything and your total consumption of gasoline goes up. It's the same going on with software engineering. Creating software is drastically cheaper these days than it used to be. And as a consequence, people create software to solve problems they never would have imagined building software for previously. And that [music] requires more developers.