A lot of it is directed at senior management who are wetting themselves at the prospect of being able to fire those irritating, demanding, highly paid developers.

They don't want higher productivity because what are they going to do with that? Launching new products is costly and uncertain. They don't want to be paying the same number of developers and have them all spending money on Claude subs. But the idea of firing 90% of them and having the rest in fear for their jobs? Brilliant!

Back in the real world, the question is what's going to happen to companies that go through with this. When they have vast amounts of slop code that no one understands? When you have to sit in with a customer and explain why the product doesn't work and no one knows even how it works never mind how to fix it? We can already see the inklings of this in the huge buggy messes that Microsoft and Anthropic are producing. Interesting times.