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> "Why hire expensive developers when anyone can build an app?"

> The result wasn't fewer developers

Makes me wonder if the right thing to do is to get rid of the non-developers instead?

Yes. LLMs are good at producing plausible statements and responses that radiate awareness, consideration, balance, and at least superficial knowledge of the technology in question. Even if they are non-committal, indecisive, or even inaccurate.

In other words, they are very economical replacements for many non-developers.

"Rewrite this as a 'fully-loaded' use case as defined by Cockburn: ..."

It's been my experience that the people running the show at these companies aren't developers themselves, but non-developers. Those people are never going to want to get rid of themselves, no matter how little they bring to the table.

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