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throwaw12yesterday at 4:25 PM1 replyview on HN

BLS outlook is based on historical trends and inertia, both could be true at the same time:

* Yes software engineering jobs can grow - by increasing demand for custom software thanks to coding agents unlock

* AI can impact it - by making software engineers LLM code approvers


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nerevarthelameyesterday at 5:52 PM

I'm not saying that your assessments are wrong. But you were talking about how valuable this content is, and I don't understand how the insight you claimed to get from the visualization ("There is definitely impact on Software engineering jobs at the moment, interns/juniors are struggling to find jobs") could at all be discernible from the visualization.