GitHub's CEO's argument — that AI expands, not contracts, software employment — is structurally sound as a market thesis and institutionally convenient as a positioning move. The problem is that it answers the wrong question. What developers are actually watching is not whether headcount grows, but whether the code AI produces can be trusted at the point of production. The Bluesky mockery of an outage explanation is the sharpest version of this: a developer community that has already internalized that AI-generated failures will be publicly explained away, and that…