- Fire half of your expensive developers
- Tell the other half to use LLMs
- LLMs are shit, so everyone now has twice the workload
- Re-hire developers
- They're forced to sign new contracts and settle for less cause the job market is flooded
- Profit
It was never about LLMs. It's about timing.
The first companies to "pivot to AI" got more investor money, a raise in stock prices, and cheap LLM contracts initially.
Now the first companies to re-hire devs get cheaper employees, before demand picks up again.