> but I don't think there will be any monetary reward for that, nor reputational outside of their own niche

I used to think this but have come around to the opposite. I'm already seeing client projects where they went off and LLMd their way forward. A few hundred KLOC and many rounds of bug fix whack-a-mole later, they have something that's a giant house of cards.

Sure, once in this state the LLMs can repair issues at a faster rate than the humans can, but the damage is already done at that point. And it requires a lot of combined human/agentic effort to unfuck it.