[ryanmcl]

This is a useful dataset, thanks for putting it together.

I think the nuance is that AI isn't replacing developers, I feel it's changing what "developer" means. I started coding 8 months ago with zero experience and shipped a production app with payments, background jobs, voice cloning, and audio processing. That would have been impossible without AI assistance. But I'm still the one making architectural decisions, debugging production issues at 2am, and figuring out what to build in the first place.

If anything, AI tools are creating more developers, not fewer. People like me who previously couldn't clear the skill floor are now building real things. That probably increases demand for experienced SWEs who can guide, review, and architect = which is exactly who Anthropic is hiring.

The "AI will replace developers" narrative sells better than "AI will lower the barrier to entry and create a much larger pool of builders, some of whom will need senior engineers to help them scale." But the second one seems closer to reality.