> The US spends a bit less than $400B/yr creating software and the worldwide spending is around $675B/yr.

The currently well-served market for AI is not software engineering, it's approximately all of white-collar work, ranging from accounting and law, through medicine, general office work, to school administration, education, NGOs and governance.

Not everyone is going to just publicly brag about their AI use, but it's an open secret everyone is either using LLMs for half their work, or - if for some reason they're not busy enough to arrive at this idea on their own - under pressure to start using them.