tl;dr:“This is going to get automated, weaponised, and industrialised. Tech companies have placed chatbots at the centre of our information ecosystems and butchered their products to push them front and centre. The incentives for bad actors to try to game them are enormous and they are capable of making incredibly sophisticated tools for their purposes.”
tl;dr:Baldur argues we’ve been in a FOSS surplus due to the software industry’s high margins and wealth created by engineers, allowing both companies and individuals to invest in open source. “The derived FOSS surplus generates billions, if not trillions, of dollars of value for the economy and most of the costs – cost of creation, opportunity cost, and the cost of OSS competing with your more lucrative proprietary products – is absorbed by the makers.”
tl;dr:(1) Finding a non-bullshit job is likely only going to get harder. (2) The overall developer job market will continue to fluctuate, but without dramatic change there isn’t much on the horizon that seems likely to turn the decline around. (3) Finding effective documentation, information, and training is likely to get harder, especially in specialised topics where LLMs are even less effective than normal.