Unless you hire smart people from EU and what have you (especially ex-USSR)

Which takes us to a point of future US dev salaries if this thing with agents gets better more and more

Sure, but can we not work out how to make humans more efficient for less money? There are obvious optimizations there that none of us would like to be part of.

Humans can't become 100x efficient cost wise. That's how cheap LLMs are.

Less money? Cost of living is much lower in EU