When you hear the AI folks screaming about "AGI" (Which is a scam), this is what they are really talking about.<p>The problem is that there will be less jobs and it won't recover and nothing to replace those lost jobs. Not even "UBI", which is unsustainable at a larger scale and really doesn't work at all.<p>Remember when the whole industry also was screaming about Jevon's paradox? Well, as AI gets more efficient, it benefits the LLM providers (not you) and creates <i>more</i> job-destroying AI (not more jobs). It enriches AI use-cases <i>for</i> companies that own LLMs or the systems that run them to <i>keep you</i> out of a job.<p>Even if 1 job is available, a growing list of candidates per job to compete and will just continue to increase.<p>You see, I hope you realized that the bullsh*t in AI, over-valuations and the the rapid race to zero are all factors that have not only caused this decline in SWE jobs, but will also cause a crash like it's the year 2000 + another AI winter.<p>Right now we are in late 1999 and just need a new surprise to reset the industry. Likely to happen before 2030.<p>So I'd prepare for that and you are 5 years early to do so before the "intelligence age" advances far into 2030, which is the dealine. [0]<p>[0] <a href="https://www.weforum.org/publications/the-future-of-jobs-report-2025/digest/" rel="nofollow">https://www.weforum.org/publications/the-future-of-jobs-repo...</a>