[rmellow]

Digital distribution and cloud apps lowered the cost to correct mistakes and therefore lowered the barrier to release.

No longer are developers bound by physical media, or have to force clients to troubleshoot, manually download updates on their website and install them.

... and as others said, LLMs impact is greater on junior developers, and at that, more on speed than quality. For experienced developers, the impact is greater on speed.

I have no data, only sense to make.