And unreasonably expensive unless you are Big Corp. Die startups, die. Welcome to our Cyberpunk overlords.

Companies will just shift money from salaries to their Anthropic bill - what's the problem?

Best not build any products that compete with Anthropic!

Or hey, the VCs can self-deal by funding new startups that buy bot time from AI firms the same VCs already fund.

No pesky developers siphoning away equity!

> You can get extremely good results assuming your spec is actually correct

Is it ever the case that the spec is entirely correct (and without underspecified parts)? I thought the reason we write code is because it's much easier to express a spec as code than it is to get a similar level of precision in prose.

I think this is basically the only SWE-type job that exists beyond the (relatively near) future: finding the right spec and feeding it to the bots. And in this way I think even complete laypeople will be able to create software using the bots, but you'd still want somebody with a deeper understanding in this role for serious projects.

The bots even now can really help you identify technical problems / mistakes / gaps / bad assumptions, but there's no replacing "I know what the business wants/needs, and I know what makes my product manager happy, and I know what 'feels' good" type stuff.

> finding the right spec and feeding it to the bots

Also known as "compiling source code".