I guess it's a variant of that, Jevon's Paradox being that increasing supply counterintuitively increases demand
Nathan Myhrvold said “Software is a gas; it expands to fill its container.”
Must be it be swallowed up? Is it not possible that an improvement in productivity increases but still be net positive? I believe that's what happens in the real world.
> Must be it be swallowed up?
Yes.
Because user CPU cycles are cheaper than developer brain power.