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2 cents from the dev who built this:
ai won't increase hiring. anything a person does can be automated by someone who's done that thing long enough to know every edge case. the person best positioned to automate your job is you.
i built the figma-pixel-perfect harness while working on the bankr console. took me weeks to get it where i wanted - around 99.5% pixel match with the figma design, hitting every weird case.
the routine that automates the entire workflow around it - picking tasks from the notion board, implementing, opening prs, handling review feedback, fixing bugs, posting updates - took a day or two.
that asymmetry is the whole story. encoding the craft is slow. orchestrating around it is trivial. once the hard part exists as a tool, the rest of the job collapses into a cron schedule.
and the real work left isn't writing code. it's knowing what "done" means. teaching the machine when *not* to ship took more judgment than teaching it to ship.
so no, ai isn't going to increase hiring. but the engineers who automate themselves first will be the last ones standing.