Much has been said about AI decimating the job market for developers. In an industry changing this quickly, we certainly can’t blame people—especially junior and aspiring engineers—for worrying that the AI automation wave might sweep their jobs out from under them. More existentially, some are wondering whether the age of AI, and particularly the rise of vibe coding, signals the demise of software development. But reports of its death are, to paraphrase Mark Twain, greatly exaggerated. Not only is there a future for software development, but we’d like to suggest that we’re on the cusp of enormous demand for code developed by humans. From our perspective, AI represents a platform shift that’s changing what it looks like to build software and ushering in a period of explosive demand for ambitious, innovative, and highly specialized code.…