Will there be more software engineers in five years than there are today?
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François Chollet tweeted (2024-03-14) https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/1767935813646716976
Prediction: there will be more software engineers (the kind that write code, e.g. Python or C or JavaScript code) in five years than there are today.
Will this be the case?
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The number of CS graduates is climbing very quickly - just the fact that there's a hugely increasing supply of potential SWEs makes me pretty confident that the number of professional SWEs will increason.
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Re: across all levels. YES.
Re: senior engineers who dont write code. As specified, software engineers are "the kind that write code, e.g. Python or C or JavaScript code", so they don't count.
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