software engineer

“If you are anywhere close to the overall software engineer retention rate for your company with the acquisitions, you are crushing it.”

“For LinkedIn, fortunately, we are actually trending slightly above that”

“Everyone knows this is a super tight market, and in that type of world, you have to think there's gotta be some more regulatory mechanism here to balance things out. And really just, I think means that price has not risen enough to drive enough of the supply. …”

“The best, most creative people will have a lot of the menial work automated for them. They wouldn't have to type a unit test anymore. The AI would do that, for example. And so a lot of their time is spent just doing more things and... We can see more Elon Musk…”

“We're a little ways away from like, from replacing the software engineer right now. We're like a bit away from that. And like, we haven't actually captured that much market value yet. And really no one's demonstrated anything close to that level. Quite yet.”

“So if the AI, if you can get AI good enough to eat much more of the 200,000 dollars of value attributed to your software engineer, IT person, it just follows that there's like 20 x more value creation and, like, there will be giant, giant outcomes.”

“We're not adding any more software engineers next year because we have increased the productivity this year with AgentForce and with other AI technology that we're using for our engineering teams by more than 30% to the point where our engineering velocity is …”

“But I definitely think that a great software engineer will be way more productive in the next six, 12 to 18 months.”

“Now you're not going to have to implement things. You're going to be able to prompt engineer your way through things just as we moved from hardware engineers to software engineers and sped up productivity, right? You're now just going to be able to have a prom…”

“The, one of the most valuable things you have is your ability to code if you're an engineer, let's say, and I wish I stuck to it more. But I think it's super important to stick to that at least because it's much better with vibe coding or whatever now.”

“There are thirty million software engineers in the world. You know, we're going to make them all 10 X more efficient over these coming years. We're going to be writing 10 X more code.”

“So I think everybody, everything should move in that direction. So there should be less of the folks that are just doing mundane things and hopefully creativity together with it works more. But if it was something repetitive, it will go away, right? So in the …”

“I think more. And the reason is that engineering is such an elastic role, right? Where if we could build a hundred times more software or say we make engineers 10 times more efficient, We would probably build a hundred times more software, right? And so far as…”

“I think we'll have far more of them. Maybe that's a bold bet.”

“I think it'll, I think there'll be more software engineers because if you define a software engineer as somebody who's capable of building a software product to solve a real problem, that pool of builders is going to expand way beyond people who've graduated w…”

“Yeah. And I, you know, sometimes we change what terms mean, right? Like the term computer now refers to something else, but now we have the term software engineer. And so I definitely think we'll have many more builders.”

“There are forty-seven million software engineers in the world. I mean, that's five trillion dollars just in software engineering token use.”

“So naturally there, there's roles, I think that, that creep in, you know, you get the, like a lawyer and accountant are not going to work in the same way that you know, a software engineer might. And that's just a fact of life. So, okay. So if they don't want …”

“Short term, yes. Long term, no. Short term, yes, because it's just a shock to the system where, you know, there are all these big layoffs that are happening that are pretty aggressive, and, you know, these are 1010 of thousands of people that had a job that no…”

“Five years from now, it's going to be like, oh my God, I cannot imagine, cannot believe that these people that get paid so much money spent hours of their time doing this. I think that's something that, you know, we definitely won't do.”

“The best engineers are going to be the ones that don't see sales and marketing as dirty work, but as again, an important part of the product, because as an engineer, you're no longer, you know, just your job is ship feature.”

“In practice, the data shows that we've never hired more software engineers.”