For one thing, the threat model assumes customers can build their own tools. Our end users can't. Their current "system" is Excel. The big enterprises that employ them have thousands of devs, but two of them explicitly cloned our product and tried to poach their own users onto it. One gave up. The other's users tell us it's crap. We've lost zero paying subscribers to free internal alternatives.
I believe that agents are a multiplier on existing velocity, not an equalizer. We use agents heavily and ship faster than ever. We get a lot of feedback from users as to what the internal tech teams are shipping and based on this there's little evidence of any increase in velocity from them.
The bottleneck is still knowing what to build, not building. A lot of the value in our product is in decisions users don't even know we made for them. Domain expertise + tight feedback loop with users can't be replicated by an internal developer in an afternoon.
Being unrestrained by team protocols, communications, jira boards, product owners, grumpy seniors.
They can now deliver much more mature platforms, apps, consumer platforms without any form of funding. You can easily save months on the basics like multi tenant set up, tests, payment integration, mailing settings, etc.
It does seem likely that the software space is about to get even crowdier, but also much more feature rich.
There is of course also a wide array of dreamers & visionairies who know jump into the developer role. Wether or not they are able to fully run their own platform im not sure. I did see many posts asking for help at some point.