is this the market played in front of our eyes slice by slice: ok, maybe not, but watching these entities duke it out is kinda amusing? There will be consequences but may as well sit it out for the ride, who knows where we are going?

Juniors really aren't just as capable with AI as anyone. Knowing how to unambiguously describe correctly what you want isn't something a junior can do, nor is understanding if what the ai produces is good or bad.

The junior engineer will become a senior. An llm wont. For now, anyway.

I always understood the main difference between CPU and GPU is that CPU's are specialised to handle branching, where GPUs are not.