I mainly think that the efficiencer firm will start to replace the staff of developers that you see at non-software companies: banks, manufacturing companies, retailers, and the like. At organizations like that, software development (and IT in general) is what’s called a cost center. That term describes a department within an organization that costs money to operate but does not directly contribute to revenue generation. Other cost centers include things like human resources and accounting. Incidentally, at any decent size, all layers of management are also cost centers.
