Daniel Lemire's blogThe data does not show mass unemploymentIf AI is causing mass unemployment among software developers, it is not showing up in the data yet.The USA had more software developers as a percentage of the population in 2025 than in 2021.On average salaries are slightly up (average of 148k$ a year). The 90th percentile is up from 2021 (215k$US a year).sourceDaniel Lemire's blogThe data does not show mass unemploymentIf AI is causing mass unemployment among software developers, it is not showing up in the data yet.The USA had more software developers as a percentage of the population in 2025 than in 2021.On average salaries are slightly up (average of 148k$ a year). The 90th percentile is up from 2021 (215k$US a year).source

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The data does not show mass unemployment

If AI is causing mass unemployment among software developers, it is not showing up in the data yet.

The USA had more software developers as a percentage of the population in 2025 than in 2021.

On average salaries are slightly up (average of 148k$ a year). The 90th percentile is up from 2021 (215k$US a year).

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