And if the trend doesn't continue? I understand that a company with Coinbase's performance has little to lose and not many options, but many companies are in a better position.

The problem is that executives could take the 15-20% productivity boost and be content, but they read stuff like this, get greedy, and they don't understand the risk they're taking.

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atonse 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Even if the trend doesn’t continue, the current models are very very good. They’re better than the average programmer in the industry, already.

	▲	zeroonetwothree an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Maybe at some coding benchmark. Certainly not at actually shipping and maintaining production grade software.

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randallsquared 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Agreed! That will be an... "interesting" outcome, if so, for a lot of these companies.