FChollet: agents write ~100% of code, yet there are more engineers than ever and demand is growing
lmoroney · x · 2026-10-18
FChollet observes the "total" automation of software engineering: there are more software engineers now than in 2025 and demand keeps growing; engineers have never worked harder; yet agents write 100% of the code. Ex-Google AI course lead Laurence Moroney replies that the key insight is shifting bottlenecks — when agents write code, the valuable skills become framing the problem, reviewing output, and measuring whether the system actually improved.
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