The real answer?
Software engineer quality of life.
There can be an increase in productivity without a corresponding increase in total output. The gains could be captured by software engineers doing a days work in an hour then fucking off in a variety of ways.
> doing a days work in an hour then fucking off in a variety of ways
Until companies start hiring 5x less engineers than they did before and well.. we are clearly moving towards that direction
Quite possibly. Doubftul it will happen all at once. If you can get 8 hours of work done in 1 they'd need to ramp up demand 8x. Would be interesting to see that happen over night. Happy monday. Here, take these 30 tickets.
But that's an inefficient use of dev salary. Y'all are gonna get ground to smooth well-compensated paste.
Yeah I think this is probably most accurate.