I think uplifting anti-immigration voices is a more proximate cause than the people who are providing alternate solutions and avoiding such voices because we recognise they’re harmful.

It’s also not just fringe “anti-immigration types and racist” Greens who reference his work.

you should consider how happy the lefty anti-YIMBY groups (Greens included) have been to lock arms with Cameron Murray because he’s the only economist who tells them what they want to hear before you go pointing fingers in our direction.

Anti-migrant people are our #1 haters.

Being a developer is technically pretty easy. The general skills are not hard to acquire and Australia is very well provided in professional service firms that do the rest.

It’s the economics of it that’s punishing, it’s low margin, high risk, high costs. Developments die in the spreadsheet.

that feels analogous to a bunch of other abstractions we’ve already been through though. most juniors aren’t having to think too much about memory mgmt (until something goes wrong), are using frameworks for a bunch of stuff, etc

A lot of what developers do isn’t particularly original but I’m not even leaning on that as an assumption - there’s not a fixed number of problems we want to write code to solve at the moment and making a line of code cheaper will have us solving more of them rather than employing less people.

The bottom line is I’d be very surprised that these things lead to less people working on software, and I strongly suspect they’ll see more.

We don’t have a fixed set of problems we’re looking to write software to solve, and new tools will be another higher level of abstraction.

There’s some possibility it changes the types of work being undertaken to create software (more PM type work?), though I’m skeptical that changes much either.