That's the beauty of these AI advancements. You, a human, will have to compete against a model for the same job.
If you get $100,000 per year as a SWE, and Anthropic offers a coding model for $100,000 per year (but working 24/7), then you'll have to give up all of those addons that make the fully burdened cost of the employee. Say goodbye to vacation, sick time, benefits, etc.
> "What have you got against machines?" said Buck.
> "They're slaves."
> "Well, what the heck," said Buck. "I mean, they aren't people. They don't suffer. They don't mind working."
> "No. But they compete with people."
> "That's a pretty good thing, isn't it--considering what a sloppy job most people do of anything?"
> "Anybody that competes with slaves becomes a slave," said Harrison thickly, and he left.
Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano
They will do it for far less. Once manufacturing catches up and they have the data centers built out tokens are going to be dirt cheap.