Totally agree, IF an AGI can fully replace/improve on the work of developers, it's definitely cheaper.

But: 1/ cheaper isn't always affordable either.

2/ who will engineer/maintain/steer AGI once AGI takes the job? once you make that leap, there's no way back, no one to understand the machine that makes the stuff we rely on.

And that circles back, in some way, with the debate about AI-generated art: there's no human component in it, there's no understanding, no feedback loop, no conversation.

> who will engineer/maintain/steer AGI once AGI takes the job?

Yeah that's the question. A reduced number of human developers may be privileged to work in these companies.

It's hard to imagine a world with cheap artificial super intelligence. It's like we are introducing a new artificial life form into society, whether it's actually conscious or not.

> debate about AI-generated art

I hope there will always be a majority of people who reject AI generated music.