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Published · transcript-backedBrendan Foody: belief
7 Jan 2026 Conversations with Tyler Brendan Foody on Teaching AI and the Future of Knowledge Work
“Maybe we only need so much accounting in the world, or we only need so much customer support, but I think software engineers certainly will be able to do so much more.”
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- Brendan Foody
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- belief
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- 7 Jan 2026
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Is the demand for software price elastic? I think it’s extremely price elastic. In fact, I think that the elasticity is the exact right thing to home in on with respect to how job displacement will evolve in these domains. I think if we make software engineers 10 times more efficient, we’ll have even more software engineers. Maybe we’ll have 10 times as many software engineers and build 100 times as much software, right? Versus other domains, maybe that’s not the case. Maybe we only need so much accounting in the world, or we only need so much customer support, but I think software engineers certainly will be able to do so much more. Where else do you think of as price elastic?…
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