[wfhrto]

The difference now is that people are actively trying to remove people (others and themselves) from software development work, so the robots have to have adequate instructions. The motivation is bigger. To dismantle all human involvement with software development is something that everyone wants, and they want it yesterday.

[samename]

everyone? source?

[lenerdenator]

It's sort of obvious. Humans cost more money than coding agents. The more you can have a coding agent do, the less you have to pay a human to do.

This aligns pretty clearly with the profit motive of most companies.