AI Was Supposed to Kill Engineering Jobs, but New Data Suggests They're the Most Resilient

My take: This made me genuinely happy to read. Everyone swore AI would wipe out engineering jobs, and SignalFire analyzed decades of hiring data across hundreds of companies and found the opposite: software engineers are the professional group most resistant to AI displacement. While overall tech hiring fell 25% vs. 2019, engineering hiring only dropped 11%, and engineers now make up 55% of new hires at major tech companies. The important nuance, so I do not sell you smoke: it is not that there is no pressure, it is that demand for engineers who can build and operate AI systems covers the decline in other roles. So the tool that supposedly came to replace them is exactly the one making them more needed. For whoever learns to work with these tools, the market is compressing a lot less than the general narrative shouts. That is precisely my thesis, and here are the numbers.