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
如果你主要只是在 agentic engineering 时代、相对于软件需求的语境中了解 Jevons paradox，那么你可能还没有充分内化 Jevons paradox 在以下条件下的影响：- 人类能够熟练使用 coding agents* - coding agents 打破边界，扩散到其他所有知识工作中 随着单位劳动效率上升、知识工作的单位成本整体下降，对总工作量以及更高质量知识的需求会上升，而不是下降。发生在 coding 上的事并不是例外；它是先声。*也就是 AI Engineers