Ignoring that this same developer, now has access to a tool, that makes himself a team.
Going independent was always a issue because being a full stack dev, is hard. With LLMs, you have a entire team behind you for making graphics, code, documents, etc... YOU becomes the manager.
We will see probably a lot more smaller teams/single devs making bigger projects, until they grow.
The companies that think they can fire devs, are the same companies that are going to go too far, and burn bridges. Do not forget that a lot of companies are founded on devs leaving a company, and starting out on their own, taking clients with them!
I did that years ago, and it worked for a while but eventually the math does not work out because one guy can only do so much. And when you start hiring, your costs balloon. But with LLMs ... Now your a one man team, ... hiring a second person is not hiring a person to make some graphics or doing more coding. Your hiring another team.
This is what people do not realize... they look too much upon this as the established order, ignoring what those fired devs now can do!
Do you really want to be a middle manager to a bunch of text boxes, churning out slop, while they drive up our power bills and slowly terraform the planet?
Well excuse the shit out of my goddamn French, but being comfy for years and suddenly facing literal doom of my profession in a year wasn't on my bingo card.
And what do you even mean by "prepare"? Shit out a couple of mil out of my ass and invest asap?
You think any manager in their right mind would take risks like that?
I think the real consequences are that they probably are so pleased with how productive the team is becoming that they will not hire new people or fire the ones who aren't keeping up with the times.
It's like saying "wow, our factory just produced 50% more cars this year, time to shut down half the factory to reduce costs!"
You really underestimate stupidity of your average manager. Two of our top performers left because they were underpaid and the manager (in charge of the comp) never even tried to retain them.
