Honestly, I keep hearing this argument, but the past 2 years have shown the opposite. OAI/Ant are not the only companies providing inference.

There are legitimate FAANG-like companies that have general guidelines about “when to use Fable/GLM/DS” and etc. to keep the costs down. And I think it’ll continue that way.

You didn't address the argument about tech debt. How do you get the greatest quantity of maintainable, high quality code within a given token budget? The answer, at least so far, seems to be human experts in the loop. We've also been hearing for years that LLMs are going to automate away software development entirely, but software job postings are steadily rising.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/11/ai-software-developer-jobs.h...