[patrickmay]

> Economically if you are vastly outcompeted by other programmers on productivity

That doesn't seem to be the case, at least currently. The credible numbers from from companies that are using LLMs extensively are in the 15-30% productivity improvements for some developers. Those figures don't factor in how that impacts end-to-end SDLC productivity and many of the published results ignore quality which impacts maintenance costs.

Before someone hops in with "Future models will do better", that's also by no means guaranteed. I think the poster you're replying too is safe for a while.