alt Hacker NewsMaybe, another possibility is the frontier providers change their pricing terms to try to capture more of the value once a sufficient number of people’s skills have atrophied. For example: 20% of the revenue of all products built with $AI_SERVICE. For someone several years out of practice they may have no other option.
I think there's a decent chance that the open weight models remain close enough to the frontier labs that they won't be able to do things like this.