> In software, we, the developers, have increasingly been a bottleneck. The world needs WAY more software than we can economically provide, and at long last a technology has arrived that will help route around us for the benefit of humanity.
Everything you wrote here is directly contradicted by casual observation of reality.
Developers aren't a bottleneck. If they were, we wouldn't be in a historic period of layoffs. And before you say that AI is causing the layoffs -- it's not. They started before AI was widely used for production, and they're also being done at companies that aren't heavily using AI anyway. They're a result of massive over-hiring during periods of low interest rates.
Beyond that, who is demanding software developers? The things that make our lives better (like digital forms at the doctor's office) aren't complex software.
The majority of the demand is from enshittification companies making our lives worse with ads and surveillance. No one is demanding developers, but certainly individual humans aren't demanding them.
Yes, the layoffs are a market correction initiated by non-AI factors, such as the end of the ZIRP era.
The world is chock-full of important, society-scale problems that have been out of reach because the economics have made them costly to work on and therefore risky to invest in. Lowering the cost of software development de-risks investment and increases the total pool of profitable (or potentially profitable) projects.
The companies that will work on those new problems are being conceived or born right now, and [collectively] they'll need lots of AI-native software devs.
> important, society-scale problems that have been out of reach because the economics have made them costly to work on and therefore risky to invest in
What are examples of these projects and how will AI put them back into reach of investment?
I haven't seen anything in this category so far.