The Grand Demulsification of Software Engineering

The article notes that it was written by an LLM from a conversation, and indeed it would benefit greatly from a good copy editor, but I still find it an interesting way of looking at the effects of LLM use now that the token-maXXing wave is receding:

> The term Demulsification describes the physical separation of a stable emulsion into its distinct chemical constituents. In software labor economics, high enterprise salaries acted as an artificial emulsifier, suspending supernumerary application bloat alongside core systems craft within the same engineering organizations.

> As AI tools collapse the cost of generating high-level glue code, this corporate emulsion is rapidly breaking apart: