The author of the comment did not choose to leave on some sort of anthropocentric principle, rejecting the idea of using AI in a Butlerian polemic: they were fired by their client and replaced wholly for a fraction of the price.
The only move would be to convert to a volume play and leverage the automation. Maybe that helps, maybe it doesn't; unlike a lot of historical automation to do with making physical widgets, where you might be able to arbitrage as a merchant, or set up your own shop to compete, the scaling factors here are much different, and much more in favor of the owners of the Capital, over anyone trying to run the middleman game.
You've got the the choice, for now. The situations are very different.
Regardless of what happens, I'm honestly just very curious to see how this all plays out, despite being nervous. What a time to be alive.
I do think that "replace coders with AI" poses a much more formidable challenge simply due to the fact that software typically requires deterministic output, especially for critical systems.
IMO, the quality is demonstrably poor at present, I don't think any dev worth their salt is going to be concerned when at best, it's only what people could have done with boilerplate tooling twenty years ago, but even that was superior.
We won't know until it happens, I for one think it's gonna get much better. All that needs to happen is openai model leaking and then it'll get into highway speed once it's in the hands of the people.
Take a look at llama, once it leaked, there were new projects and optimization left and right.
The only move would be to convert to a volume play and leverage the automation. Maybe that helps, maybe it doesn't; unlike a lot of historical automation to do with making physical widgets, where you might be able to arbitrage as a merchant, or set up your own shop to compete, the scaling factors here are much different, and much more in favor of the owners of the Capital, over anyone trying to run the middleman game.
You've got the the choice, for now. The situations are very different.