No AI-driven developer unemployment in the data: US dev share and salaries up vs 2021
lemire · x · 2026-09-21
Daniel Lemire notes that if AI were causing mass unemployment among software developers, it isn't showing in the data: the US had a higher share of software developers in the population in 2025 than in 2021, average salaries are slightly up at $148k/year, and the 90th percentile rose to $215k/year.
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