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• As a software guy (developer, engineer, whatever we call it now), I think demand is growing invisibly, in the form of higher expectations.
• This is maybe why the middle of the sandwich doesn't actually shrink: AI compresses the per-unit effort, but the spec for any given feature keeps inflating to fill it back up.
• The other thing I'd add is the uncertainty about where to re-skill and how to get across a discontinuity like the one in your programmer-vs-software-developer(engineer) chart.