The great displacement is already well underway?

Everyone nitpicking OP's personal choices, is this because the job market is not in fact being gutted by AI?

It's being gutted by a focus on AI investments which translates to more AI jobs, but that's not the same thing as AI itself automating your job away.

I'm using Claude everyday for my work. Am I just missing out on how awesome the things have gotten in this space?

It’s being glutted by an oversupply of labor. We have too many new grads and then H1bs on top of that.

There was a huge hiring spike circa 2022 that apparently misled a lot of people.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IHLIDXUSTPSOFTDEVE

I'm building a business and if it were, say, 2018 I would have already made several dev hires already this year. But using LLMs I simply do not have the demand for labor that I would have had.

This is a $900k ARR business already. Android and iOS apps published, as well as a webapp. We do not have a dev team.

There's honestly not much reason to think that. The job market's definitely not what it was, though it's showing some regional recovery, but blaming that on AI, vs the far more glaring end of ZIRP (plus current economic uncertainty and recession risk, which will tend to suppress hiring) seems like a _bit_ of a leap.

I don't know how to process this because people are saying Claude is among the best and I'm using it everyday. It just provides great code help but there's no way it can reduce a decision to hire.

Can you share the apps?