if you only learned about jevons paradox primarily wrt software demand in the age of agentic engineering， you may not have fully internalized jevons parodox's impact under the conditions of：
- humans who can wield coding agents well*
- coding agents breaking containment to all other knowledge work
as the efficiency of labor goes up/unit cost of knowledge work goes broadly down， the demand for total work and better knowledge goes up， not down.
what happened to coding isnt the exception； it's the herald.
*aka AI Engineers
so far at least, i'm pretty sure AI has been net job-creating. this was not what i expected--although i was much less pessimistic than others, i thought by this...