That works until openai does the same thing. Pretty clear as an industry they want to establish a new price floor for non-trivial coding use.
Once they get people hooked, deskilled, and paying, the money ratchet only tightens.
And the companies KNOW that theyre replacing engineers, or trying to. So each engineer replaced is X salary a year they now have available, so make it back in SaaS LLM tokens.