And yet no one out there is actually paying the actual price that is required to sustain these tools in any real shape or form. No one. Like being handed a digger and being told the gas and labour are free to operate it.
a really common opinion i'm seeing from my friends in the software industry is that AI takes away the fun / easy parts of the job, but it's not like your workload goes down as a result, so you spend an increasing fraction of your time doing the shittiest tasks