> If you think A is not happening for a software engineer's role, then you are mistaken.

En masse, I argue not. More productivity for engineers would not be met with mass layoffs if engineering production was why value was being added. On the contrary, other industries have had to hire back talent becsuse companies were too aggressive cutting people and needed that work to be done.

But I'm not an oracle. I can only speak for what I see today and won't predict tomorrow. Especially in these trying times.

You're reading too widely for a simple point I'm making: what an engineer did in Aug 2025, they can do in a fraction of the time in Aug 2026.

Everything else is something else you care about, but producitivty is simply proven for almost every engineer on the above point.

> You're reading too widely for a simple point I'm making: what an engineer did in Aug 2025, they can do in a fraction of the time in Aug 2026.

You're not getting my point, and it's not hard. I disagree with this statement.

>producitivty is simply proven for almost every engineer on the above point.

I've read otherwise.