I think there are some pressures to smooth out that outcome: lawyers are often directly competing within a limited court throughput; for developers «being better than the other one» is not always a replacement for «adapted to our schedule», at least if the price is right.
Only a few companies keeping developers at all could be a possible outcome. Although when all the large players go VMWare-under-Broadcom, maybe this will create a pressure that a few juniors with local LLMs are still better than the software garbage or LLM prices that you get from the Singular Corp.?
I think there are some pressures to smooth out that outcome: lawyers are often directly competing within a limited court throughput; for developers «being better than the other one» is not always a replacement for «adapted to our schedule», at least if the price is right.
Only a few companies keeping developers at all could be a possible outcome. Although when all the large players go VMWare-under-Broadcom, maybe this will create a pressure that a few juniors with local LLMs are still better than the software garbage or LLM prices that you get from the Singular Corp.?
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