Interesting that the algorithmic finance firms are still recruiting. Perhaps they still need a pipeline of rigorous thinkers, or are unwilling to cede significant influence over P+L to llms.
Because the market is eternal competition. If one does something that works others have to figure it out and nobody puts their ideas in open source.
Typing code has never been the difficult part of quant finance.
In the future it will be considered one of the most unusual cultural/social decisions ever, that large financial services firms are as they are in the Western world.
I have never seen a group of people so frantically doing nothing of any value.