Engineering video
1:38 · 24 September 2026
Instead of cutting headcount, AI allows individual engineers to own a much bigger surface area, such as building entire applications or mobile apps that previously lacked the budget.
Hear it at 0:00 →As software creation becomes cheaper through AI, demand increases, leading to software expanding into new niches and categories that were previously impossible to build.
Hear it at 1:14 →So, will we need as many front and engineers in the future? So I think so I think that's a valid concern where people look at, okay, this is the application and we used to have 10 people building it and now one person with AI can do it. But reality is what's happening is companies are building projects that they were not capable of building before. So good companies, the ones that have solid financials, usually are actually hiring more people.
The layoffs came mostly from people that overhired. But the same engineer can now own a much bigger surface. So you can think of someone that used to be a front engineer and they would own a feature, now they can build the whole application. with product. Somebody that own a whole application could actually build a mobile application that maybe they weren't able to building before because the budget wasn't there.
So what happens when you add AI to the creation is that everything changes. Not only the what were you building before, but also all the new possibilities. There are things that were just impossible or we just weren't worth investing in. And we are building today, even at the senior, they were building a lot of infrastructure that I wouldn't even be able to dream about a couple of years ago. Because it would take me the the hard work of sitting down and writing everything by hand.
So, I would say a lot of people mention Jevon's Paradox. There's definitely truth in that. Right? And the moment something becomes cheaper, we usually use more of it and you'll see software expanding into niches and categories. We weren't able to build software before and existing software will go deeper. and ideally will be of higher quality, at least in the long term.
