#1 - The future looks like more and more code generated by LLMs, and fewer and fewer programmers who can fix it. The "hallucination" problem's never going away, and there's no reason to believe they'll ever be capable of fixing all the bugs they generate.
#2 - Meanwhile, price plans for the most capable models are massively subsidised. At some point, prices will *have* to go up, and by at least an order of magnitude.
The race for AI companies is to make #1 a chronic problem before #2 happens.
Assuming the same business model as Airbnb, Uber, Deliveroo etc, they'll "disrupt" software development until businesses have very few alternative choices.
The takeaway delivery platforms, for example, ran at a loss for years and years, subsidised by investors to effectively eliminate direct deliveries and give restaurants and customers few other choices.
*Then* the prices started going up.
If you're not hiring entry-level because "AI can do that", you're the mark.
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