> Who is the product (LLM coding tools) actually for, and what is its purpose?

Ideally: it's for people who aren't devs, don't want to be devs, can't afford to pay devs to build their hobby projects for them, and just want to have small tools to unblock or do cool stuff. It's pretty incredible what a no-coder can knock off in an evening just by yelling at Cursor. It's a 3D printer for code.

But realistically, we know that the actual answer is: the people who already destroy companies for their own short-term benefit and regard all tech workers as fungible resources will have no problem undermining the feasibility of hiring good senior devs in 2050 in exchange for saving a ton of money now by paying non-devs non-dev money to replace juniors, leaning HARD on the remaining meds/seniors to clean up the resulting mess, and then pulling the ripcord on their golden parachute and fucking off to some yacht or island or their next C-suite grift before the negative consequences hit, all the while touting all the money they saved "automating" the development process at their last corp. And then private equity buys it up, "makes it efficient" to death, and feeds its remaining viable organs to another company in their portfolio.