> The economics is spending a few hundred bucks on software for an IC you're already paying over ten grand a month

Let's be fair here, the endgame is not "a few hundred bucks a month." Not for how much money has been invested. How much extra you have to spend to make developers how much more productive, and will companies go along with it is the trillion dollar question.

It's a few hundred bucks per month for now, but that's not going to last. At some point, the industry is going to pivot towards tracking token-based productivity because it's not going to be cheap forever unless FOSS models catch up.