This took me a while(I'm slow), but I think GP is saying: "I've seen enough of (expressions) thinking ideas is the key when engineering was; with everyone snorting LLMs, we'll see that replicating in software world" but nicely.
THAT makes sense. Engineering was never cheap nor non-differentiating if normalized by man-hours, only when it was USD normalized. If a large enough number of people were to get the same FALSE impression that software and firmware parts are now basically free and non-differentiating commodities, then there will be tons of spectacular failures in software world in coming years. There has already been early previews of those here.
THAT makes sense. Engineering was never cheap nor non-differentiating if normalized by man-hours, only when it was USD normalized. If a large enough number of people were to get the same FALSE impression that software and firmware parts are now basically free and non-differentiating commodities, then there will be tons of spectacular failures in software world in coming years. There has already been early previews of those here.