Comment by sublinear

Commercial services have always been a thinly-veiled bureaucracy long before we even had computers. The move to the web just made them more powerful.

From that perspective, LLMs are a weapon meant to disrupt their power and shake out the businesses that are too weak to resist or too dumb to see the threat. It's not about "solving" code, but weakening the competition enough that they sell out or go away. The code is still as valuable as any other proprietary information, operations, plans, etc.