And if the trend doesn't continue? I understand that a company with Coinbase's performance has little to lose and not many options, but many companies are in a better position.
The problem is that executives could take the 15-20% productivity boost and be content, but they read stuff like this, get greedy, and they don't understand the risk they're taking.
Agreed! That will be an... "interesting" outcome, if so, for a lot of these companies.
Even if the trend doesn’t continue, the current models are very very good. They’re better than the average programmer in the industry, already.