> "LLMs expose the literacy gap between great and mediocre coders. If you can't see how bad the generated code is, LLMs will only make you not see it faster."

I wholeheartedly believe that if the general trend in SWE goes without hiring new grads/self-taught people (who can still use AI-assistance in their work), we're gonna be seeing huge outsourcing to AIaaS companies and generally become tremendously dependent on them when existing pool of seasoned programmers goes extinct and the work doesn't intrigue training new people.

Although there is cheap, open source models running locally or available at scale on reasonable prices without compromising programmer integrity.