[shinryuu]

> but if it does, you don’t get to say you were blindsided.

It's absolutely a commodification of the engineers skills. The shape of this is that if they could, they would cut you out entirely.

So it looks that you will be drawing the short end of the stick at one point or the other.

[MattGaiser]

Oh I agree. I need to be developing more product skills as a result. But the threat of that is very clearly there.