{"id":708716,"date":"2026-04-06T12:48:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T12:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/708716\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T12:48:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T12:48:20","slug":"report-says-software-engineer-job-listings-are-up-30-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/708716\/","title":{"rendered":"Report Says Software Engineer Job Listings Are Up 30% This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019re a software engineer, some new research from one hiring analytics firm suggests that AI Jobs Armageddon has not yet materialized. Data from TrueUp, reported by Business Insider on April 3<\/a> says the number of software engineers has climbed by 30% since the start of this year.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an important complication to the idea that AI is replacing humans. But if you\u2019re a coder and your professional life doesn\u2019t feel as copacetic as this report suggests, there are probably good reasons for that.<\/p>\n

Back in February, the stock market experienced a brief sell-off tied to something very rational and fact-based: a piece of speculative fiction about AI and job losses posted on Substack<\/a>. \u201cThe 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis,\u201d was the title, and it was from an analysis firm called Citrini Research. Imagine, it offered, if U.S. unemployment spiked to 10.2%, mostly from AI replacing white-collar jobs. Now imagine an orangutan that can drive a car. Isn\u2019t imagination fun?<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t mean to be glib. I probably value wild speculation more than the average person<\/a>, and Citrini Research\u2019s story is worth thinking about. It\u2019s just that if you believed Mark Cuban when he said<\/a> in February, \u201cSoftware is dead because everything\u2019s going to be customized to your unique utilization,\u201d and then you invested accordingly, you were at best premature.<\/p>\n

Apparently as of the publication of the TrueUp report, there were 67,000 relevant job openings\u2014a raw number higher than there\u2019s been in over three years, and more than twice the number from when they were at a low ebb in 2023.<\/p>\n

But now more than ever, a report like this should be taken as an interesting data point, rather than as a sign that everything is fine.<\/p>\n

Even if, as TrueUp says, the number of job postings is way up, it\u2019s important to keep in mind that in recent years, experiences reported by job seekers in all areas\u2014not just software engineering\u2014have gotten qualitatively bleaker due to ghost jobs and automated HR. As an article in the Atlantic<\/a> by Annie Lowrey put it, \u201cYoung people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired.\u201d<\/p>\n

And as the Guardian\u2019s Eleanor Margolis wrote<\/a>, \u201cThe hiring process has become so mechanised, both figuratively and literally, that it\u2019s hard to believe that the people who end up being hired aren\u2019t merely the best at gaming the system.\u201d<\/p>\n

And the jobs themselves, once obtained, might not be what coders once imagined they would do. Evidence is trickling in that AI tools may be increasing the sheer amount of software that\u2019s being created. For instance, there\u2019s been a 30% rise in the number of new apps in the Apple App Store from 2024 to 2025, which the Information tentatively attributes to <\/a>\u201dthe vibe coding effect<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

As an anonymous software engineer at Google told the Blood in the Machine newsletter<\/a> last year:<\/p>\n

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\u201cAll of these will result in poorer software quality. \u2018Anyone can write code\u2019 sounds good on paper, but when bad code is massively produced, it hurts everyone including those who did not ask for it and have been trusting the software industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So maybe the \u201cvibe coding effect\u201d really is already creating jobs. That doesn\u2019t necessarily mean the world should celebrate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you\u2019re a software engineer, some new research from one hiring analytics firm suggests that AI Jobs Armageddon…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":708717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[21],"tags":[691,738,31067,420,158,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-708716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-coding","tag-jobs","tag-technology","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116357844572351562","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}