I think the first casualties of ChatGPT for developers are going to be offshore teams. These teams get given small, discrete programming tasks. They are also often teams with very high turnover. This means that tasks need to be heavily specified and managed. I think it's a small step from this to just getting a LLM to do the work.
I also think that this could potentially be a huge disruptor for India as a whole and that there could well be some very big lawsuits coming brought by Indian companies who have lost millions (Billions?) to a machine trained on a largely open source codebase.
This sort of thing makes me reconsider whether I should be putting any code up on github or answering anything on stackoverflow - why would I do this, if my code is harvested and used against me?
