@swyx: if you only learned about jevons paradox primarily wrt software demand in the age of agentic engineering, you may not h…
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The tweet discusses Jevons paradox in the context of agentic engineering, suggesting that increasing efficiency of AI agents will increase demand for knowledge work rather than reduce it.
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if you only learned about jevons paradox primarily wrt software demand in the age of agentic engineering, you may not have fully internalized jevons parodox’s impact under the conditions of:
- humans who can wield coding agents well*
- coding agents breaking containment to all other knowledge work
as the efficiency of labor goes up/unit cost of knowledge work goes broadly down, the demand for total work and better knowledge goes up, not down.
what happened to coding isnt the exception; it’s the herald.
*aka AI Engineers
Sam Altman (@sama): so far at least, i’m pretty sure AI has been net job-creating.
this was not what i expected–although i was much less pessimistic than others, i thought by this level of capability we’d have seen some impact.
it is possible this direction keeps going!
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