You can do a lot with just $20 Codex CLI subscription. Tokens are cheap compared to the $20k we're paying for a dev each month.
I’m reminded of https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/08/09/the-joel-test-12-s...
How much bloat and bureaucracy bottleneck is sitting in middle management whose favorite past time is wasting everyone's time on meetings that could have been an email? HR? Not the execs, but the HR drones that do nothing but answer employee questions about policy, could have already been replaced with not even an AI, just an old school chatbot, a long time ago.
Instead of cutting engineers, cut the non-tech jobs, flatten the structure.
There’s obviously a benefit of paying higher rates for US programmers, but does that benefit change when llms are thrown into the mix
It takes more planning, more specification, more coordination, more QA. The quality is almost always worse, and remediation takes forever. So your BA, QA and PM time goes way up and absorbs any cost savings.
YMMV.