Often such practices are about that. I already got mine, block the next company. But there’s also a certain potential danger. Lower end book cover artists lost their jobs this year with the various picture creator software coming out. What job category is next? It will happen. I expect my job as a software engineer to require more and more use of “programmer aids” which are just llm code writer tools. If I don’t learn how to use them, I’ll be less effective as a programmer, at some point I’d be less employable.