It's quite amusing to me because I am old enough to remember when Copilot emerged the HN mainthought was that it was the death sentence for big corps, the scrap

It's quite amusing to me because I am old enough to remember when Copilot emerged the HN mainthought was that it was the death sentence for big corps, the scrappy independent hacker was going to run circles around them. But here we see the predictable reality: an organization that is already in an elite league in terms of developer velocity gets more benefit from LLM code assistants than Joe Hacker. These technologies serve to entrench and empower those who are already enormously powerful.