> Similarly, as a software engineer I benefit from code generation tooling already. If that gets smarter and faster, I will be more productive, my team will be able to build software faster, and instead of laying people off I will expect to be given more work. Maybe our 4-year roadmap will be achievable in 1 or 2 years with the same size team.

Why so sure the end users aren't going to be feeding their own requirements directly to a Jenkins/Copilot/ChatGPT mashup running as a service in the cloud?