The displacement math points the same way from where this is being written: the bottleneck moves from writing code to reviewing it. An agent can iterate against tests unsupervised, so the scarce jobs become spec authoring, invariant selection, and judging whether an output honors them. The memo mentions security review; if generation gets 100x cheaper and verification does not, the review bench becomes the choke point. Would be interesting to hear how Proton plans to staff that side.
The displacement math points the same way from where this is being written: the bottleneck moves from writing code to reviewing it. An agent can iterate against tests unsupervised, so the scarce jobs become spec authoring, invariant selection, and judging whether an output honors them. The memo mentions security review; if generation gets 100x cheaper and verification does not, the review bench becomes the choke point. Would be interesting to hear how Proton plans to staff that side.