Yes, companies will hire employees that are significantly faster if they can do some for around the same cost. And they can - the current crop of tools provide

Yes, companies will hire employees that are significantly faster if they can do some for around the same cost. And they can - the current crop of tools provide undeniable productivity uplifts to developers, even if they’re only using the cheaper open weight models. I was like you, using them for one shot things until January of this year. My token usage has roughly 100x’d since then, once I saw the value in the agentic loop.