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Developers aged 22-25 have lost 19% of their jobs since late 2022, even as total US developer headcount grew 10% to 1.69 million. Laurie Voss argues the collapse is hiding inside a boom.
His flip: 36 million people joined GitHub last year, and most never call themselves programmers. The job title is dissolving into a skill.
The thread splits on whether the charts even carry AI's fingerprints.
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The launch itself is clean: Kimi K2.7 is selectable across VS Code, JetBrains, Xcode and the rest, hosted on Azure, billed usage-based. At Moonshot's rates, one reader clocked it at roughly GPT-5.4-mini territory.
Then the real conversation took over. A Copilot CLI superfan described his whole department burning the monthly budget every two to three days after June and defecting to Claude Code, guessing Copilot 'lost 50% or more of their customer base last month.' A small team hit an undocumented 10-license minimum and left for Cursor.
