Jevon's Paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
"In 1865, the English economist William Stanley Jevons observed that technological improvements that increased the efficiency of coal use led to the increased consumption of coal in a wide range of industries. He argued that, contrary to common intuition, technological progress could not be relied upon to reduce fuel consumption."
Re:“Vibe Coding” vs. Reality
by ModernMech on Sunday March 23, 2025 @02:30PM
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It's the same reason widening the road doesn't lead to less traffic.
Python, and other high level languages made a lot of development much faster, but it never lead to reduced engineering needs. Cloud made deploying services massively easier, and as a result we actually have a lot more people working in infrastructure.
Faster development mostly leads to expanded economic viability for new types of software. The real question is what becomes economically feasible if development costs are halved.