[d4ng]

How much value in present terms was created by n hours of your time before LLMs, and how much value is created now by n hours of your time? If everyone is using LLMs, has that value calculation result changed?

People used to go to work by foot. The best runners would get to work first. Then the bicycle came along. The person who was the best runner before is now still getting to work first on the bicycle.

[Schiendelman]

Yes, that value calculation result has changed. The gap between building software and financial value is knowing which software to build and how to break into a market, not how much code you can write. There are not very many good product managers. Not that I'm necessarily good! But I try to be. :)

[d4ng]

Please see the bicycle analogy. Resources available at a given time are finite. If everyone is now churning out software at a higher rate with LLMs, what changes in terms of the value gained?

[Schiendelman]

You're making a bit of a category error there - the "everyone" is different after LLMs. You aren't comparing the same market.