> used to see 80-100 lines of good code per programmer.

For what time frame? A day? A week? A ... ?

> seeing up to 2400 lines a day in 4 hours of deep work.

Now I get it.

Lines of code is not a metric for correctness nor fitness of purpose.

> LLMs will greatly reduce the amount of people required, mainly seniors.

This is just high-grade speculative bovine excrement.

I think the amortization is the primary issue, TBH.

Not primarily the fault of the IRS, as they were just following the law passed in 2017 that didn't go into effect until years later. But there's a chance it gets changed back to the previous way by the same people who passed it.

> LLMs will greatly reduce the amount of people required, mainly seniors

Nope. LLM is unable to reason about correctness of code, since they only regurgitate code based on "most likely to come next".

Rather, senior programmers will even be more important to check for correctness. And this will likely lead to senior programmer burnout.