Kevin Surace argues AI isn't replacing developers but multiplying their output. Companies use it to clear massive backlogs of bugs and features, compressing weeks of work into days. A demographic crunch means fewer new engineers entering the workforce, so AI arrives as a productivity multiplier rather than a threat.
Everyone said AI would wipe out developers. This expert just dismantled that myth with perfect logic. Here's the interesting thing. We are not seeing en masse people lay off their coders, even though AI can write 100% of the code. So why is that? Here's the reason. Every company has a backlog of tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of bugs and feature requests that they thought they'd never get to, and now they can. So in fact, they're taking their existing development group, and what used to take a month or 2 weeks Maybe they can do in a couple of days, let's just say. So now they can accelerate and move 3 or 4 or 5 or 10 times faster across the organization, which is what they always wanted to do but couldn't afford. Now, they may not be hiring as fast, but we are also into an era where there are less people coming out of college because the birth rate fell 20 years ago and there are people are retiring faster than they're coming into the workforce. So there are less people to hire no matter what. So actually AI came at a very, very good time when it's going to save us Instead of hurt us.
