Scott Wu: AI will lead to more software engineers, not fewer
Scott Wu · No Priors Ep. 62 | With Cognition CEO and Co-Founder Scott Wu · May 2, 2024 · at 9:53
Scott Wu is the co-founder and CEO of Cognition, makers of the autonomous AI software engineer Devin. He discusses the long-term impact of AI coding tools on the software engineering labor market.
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“I think if anything, there's going to be more engineers, not less and I'll kind of give two reasons why. I think the first is there's just so much demand for engineering out there and so much demand, honestly, even in ways that we don't always think about, right? A lot of using Excel or a lot of, you know, working with various tools is, is in some ways is there because, there's, because engineering is hard, right? I think there are so many problems that could be solved with code. There's so much more that could be built with code that I think multiplying every single developer is going to give us more developers, not less.”
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