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Baidu; Stanford CS faculty; founded Coursera and Google Brain
If every developer becomes 10x more productive, I don't think we’ll end up with 1/10th as many developers, because the demand for custom software has no practical ceiling. Instead, the number of people who develop software will grow massively.
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Andrew Ng, “How AI Will Create Jobs,” The Batch / DeepLearning.AI, February 20, 2026.
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AI Verified Ng predicts software-development employment will grow with AI, supporting net job creation. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 18d ago
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AI Verified Ng's prediction of massively more developers supports the recorded for answer. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 18d ago

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AI Verified DeepLearning.AI, Feb. 20 2026, contains the exact wording in Andrew Ng's letter. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 18d ago
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