The real answer?
Software engineer quality of life.
There can be an increase in productivity without a corresponding increase in total output. The gains could be captured by software engineers doing a days work in an hour then fucking off in a variety of ways.
But that's an inefficient use of dev salary. Y'all are gonna get ground to smooth well-compensated paste.
Yeah I think this is probably most accurate.
> doing a days work in an hour then fucking off in a variety of ways
Until companies start hiring 5x less engineers than they did before and well.. we are clearly moving towards that direction