What do I mean by some software devs are "ngmi"?

At "an oh fuck moment in time", I closed off the post with the following quote.

N period on from now, software engineers who haven't adopted or started exploring software assistants, are frankly not gonna make it. Engineering organizations right now are split between employees who have had that "oh fuck" moment, are leaning into software assistants and those who have not.

People have asked me to expand. So let's do it.

This is a tale about seven fruits. Seven fruits who work at a company and how the shifts in the software industry by AI will affect all companies and their employees.

It really doesn't matter what company, as the productivity benefits that are delivered by LLMs and agentic software development are going to rapidly change employee performance metrics dynamics within all companies - all at once. AI has been commoditized and can be purchased with a credit card.

At this company we have seven software developers, and the company does six-monthly employee performance review cycles.