> It's now much more efficient to pay for a senior or staff engineer and set them up with a subscription to claude or codex.

this has been happening for years though. just think of cloud computing and things like kubernetes: a single person or a small team can handle the amount of computer that twenty years ago required a full team of sysadmins, a facility (either on premise or datacenter space), huge (upfront!) capital expenditure and ongoing costs (connectivity and power).

same goes for web frameworks (think rails and similar)