Software Developer

“What's happening right now with vibe coding and agentic coding literally any given person could be 400 of that person, like, from two years, like, even, like, nine months ago you can be a multiple of yourself.”

“The role of a single software developer is increasing, whereas the number of software developers required in a single company is shrinking by magnitudes.”

“The LLM itself Is not a great product for most people. Usage is a mile wide and an inch deep, and you have this kind of polarization between people where this really, really works, and they really, really have product market fit, which is basically software de…”

“Software developers are the accountancy of VisiCalc. Like, oh my God, this changes everything. Like before VisiCalc and after VisiCalc. Before, before Claude Code and after Claude Code.”

“Software developers are not being laid off on net. In fact, job postings, job recs for software developers are at a three year high, growing 15% year over year.”

“There's only fifty million people that, that write software in the world.”

“The job levels, the job numbers of software developers on Indeed are going up.”

“So it's moved to like, we're gonna approach a hundred percent penetration per developer of some sort of price per year, 5006 thousand.”

“And software has just been so restrictive because there's only twenty million developers in the world.”

“And so there, there's always this tendency, you know, for the pros to be, you know, look down the nose and say, you know, the new people are being, you know, basically sloppy. They don't understand what's happening. You know, they don't really understand the m…”

“Coding is a pretty small part of a software developer's job. Different surveys, 10%, 20%, 30% of the week is spent writing code. Right? You might argue in the best companies, it's close to 50% of the week spent writing code.”

“Search is probably about the same amount of time as writing code for most software developers as a professional.”

“The whole point of crypto is actually to protect consumers from software developers.”

“The way I'm looking at it is that vibing code is a great way to accelerate, but it doesn't remove you from the responsibility of actually knowing your code, being able to address issues within the code, and guide AI farther into the, you know, maintenance proc…”

“California had a bill that would have created unlimited downstream liability for software developers, which would have effectively killed open source.”

“And so if we can arm each software developer with 10 background SDLC agents, you know, that doesn't get rid of the software developer job. It just up levels it and changes them to software developer managers, their managing agents.”

“I know a bunch of very strong developers that have been developing for a very long Time that have basically stopped. They're like running companies now or whatever. And they're all back to programming at night.”

“As software developers, myself included, we've always said, oh, we build intuitive, easy to use applications. And it's not intuitive at all, right? Because what we're doing is taking the mental model that's in our head of what we're trying to accomplish with s…”

“I think we'll see the next hundred million software developers emerge around tools that are Gentic, but I still think it will be a profession to use those tools to do stuff, to build stuff for other people.”

“And so we are still I think for like a decade or so at least going to have software developers that work in, in lots of old school, you know, PHP code and COBOL code and all that stuff.”

“And then we're talking about, you know, 25, 28% productivity gains on, on the end to end 55% or higher on, on the coding task.”

“How do we evolve from being mostly code writers to mostly Delegators to the models and code reviewers. That's what I think the work looks like three years from now. It's coming up with the right ideas, doing the right user interaction design, figuring out a de…”

“I do not think that to sell twice as many cars, we need twice as many product managers or twice as many software developers. We should be expecting incredible leverage over our fixed expense base in those areas and expecting those people to cover more ground o…”

“If we take the cost of software and high quality software down two orders of magnitude, we're just gonna end up with more software in the world. We're not gonna end up with fewer people doing development.”

“Because it turns out kind of managing an AI is extremely similar to managing actual software developers.”

“Well, I think the best software developers are not the best because they're the best coders. It's because they think about development as a whole. They are systems thinkers.”

“And so I think the coding piece of software developers' work will diminish substantially. I think in 10 years' time, coding would be, ah, ah, very much alive and well, but it would be the edge case. It would be the thing that you do because, you know, like, it…”

“Some PMs are quite technical, and they're close to the software. I think those roles will definitely merge.”

“The point of this product was to get it in the hands of software developers so that they can see what's possible with you know, this new operating system, this entirely new context. It wasn't meant ever to be. A consumer device.”

“I think this unlocks so many new software developers who don't, who are just everyday people.”

“They were talking about learning to code, and how everyone's going to be able to code because of ChatGPT, and developers won't be needed anymore, and I just don't believe that's the case at all. I mean, we've seen the same thing with no code. It's like, you ca…”

“These networks have a set of shifting incentives where when they start off, They're solicitous to software developers, creators. They have to be their startup. But over time, as they gain power and the network effects kick in, they start to extract.”

“It feels like the harder thing is to be really good at marketing, or really good at sales. I'm not saying being a really good developer is not hard, but I just feel like I know a lot more really good developers, and I know a lot of, like, pretty good product p…”

“This is moving in the direction where AI can do so much more of technical implementation. I think it's only going to get more and more. That doesn't mean there's not going to be demand for software developers to know how to, like, use the AI tools to pull thin…”

“And so I still think we will have large teams of software developers in the future. They will just You know, each individual will be responsible for far more feature scope than they are today, and the system as a whole will be more sophisticated and more power…”

“No, devs work better together. They're building product. It's a team.”

“The best developers are so attracted to just the idea of them pushing code and then seeing it impact customers quickly. That's, like, It's more valuable than money to most developers that are most of the best developers that I talked to.”

“I'm going to say something controversial. I don't think developers anymore have good judgment. Developers get to the answer or they don't get to the answer.”

“And at that time, no one else was trying to reach them. We were like one of the only ones.”

“When we do get towards things that look like AGI, I suspect that developers will actually be one of the first jobs to see large fractions of their job be automated, which I think is very counterintuitive but also predicting the future is hard, so.”

“In the U S there's about, you know, four to five million college Graduates each year, and only about less than five percent or 250,000 of those might have a CS degree or computer science education. You know, the problem is there's nearly 400,000 new jobs. And …”

“Yeah, if you're writing code, you know, you're about to become a newspaper man. But if you can write a really good play or movie script or novel. You're going to be a very rich person.”

“Yes, and that's also why Swedes are some of the best Software developers on the planet because they have the ability to work together, but also question each other.”

“The future of innovation is not having more developers code. The future of innovation is getting Non-technical people to be coding.”

“Every major software developer, every major kind of intangible goods maker had this exact same problem, where a hundred percent of their revenue comes from one percent of their users.”

“So like in the Philippines, you're going to pay for that same developer, 1500 bucks a month for full-time work.”