Related to 2, my company is strongly pushing for developer to have product mentality and be less of just a cog in a machine.

I am biased because I have more of a product mentality than other developers, but I think these are the people better positioned to be more productive with agents: know enough tech to be able to implement things with agents, and know enough product to know what should be implemented.

I expect other companies to follow.

This was true circa GPT2, less true after RLHF and not true at all after RLVR. It's trying to model the distribution of outputs most likely to solve the problem, not the average distribution.

Neoliberalism as always screwing up things.

But the change is not just cultural, after Friedman et al. came a wave of deregulation and changes in the tax system. Deregulation that allows businesses to get away with bad business practices, and a tax system that resulted in the skyrocketing of CEO pay. CEOs became not just well-paid employees anymore, but actual part of the shareholder class.

We need to at least get back to post-war capitalism where businesses were more regulated, the tax system was progressive, and the economy grew more than ever.