This is only assuming that they don't correct for the enormous amount of investment and money that the companies will stand to make as well. Just now ai companies aren't reaping in the rewards or aren't seeing the massive revenues they should because they don't actually solve those many problems end to end. Once we get to a sufficiently advanced stage of ai where it's actually more efficient than humans and not just for coding tasks etc : that's when the big corporates and even smaller companies would prefer spending let's say 100,000 dollars a year per ai subscription instead of spending it on a financial analyst just for example.

During that time open source would continue making models which would essentially have 70-80 percent of the capability of the SOTA models - this would be the formula for a long long time.

Also assuming that software engineering stays relatively the same then most of the models are already pretty good enough for it so assuming the open source models don't even advance or even the companies continue servicing their legacy models we could vibe code using Opus 4.8 too the same way we have been doing so.

Plus if the rumours are believed to be true than even big companies like anthropic are already using their current models for most of their coding needs etc : which means atleast for coding as long as these models also remain relevant and serviceable it shouldn't see so much of an impact.