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minus-squareerrer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down6·8 months agoYeah but a Claude/Cursor/whatever subscription costs $20/month and a junior engineer costs real money. Are the tools 400 times less useful than a junior engineer? I’m not so sure…
minus-squareFeyd@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down2·8 months agoThe point is that comparing AI tools to junior engineers is ridiculous in the first place. It is simply marketing.
minus-squarelIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·8 months agoEven at $100/month you’re comparing to a > $10k/month junior. 1% of the cost for certainly > 1% functionality of a junior. You can see why companies are tripping over themselves to push this new modality.
minus-squareerrer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·8 months agoI was just ballparking the salary. Say it’s only 100x. Does the argument change? It’s a lot more money to pay for a real person.
minus-squarelIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·8 months agoWasn’t it clear that our comments are in agreement?
Yeah but a Claude/Cursor/whatever subscription costs $20/month and a junior engineer costs real money. Are the tools 400 times less useful than a junior engineer? I’m not so sure…
The point is that comparing AI tools to junior engineers is ridiculous in the first place. It is simply marketing.
Even at $100/month you’re comparing to a > $10k/month junior. 1% of the cost for certainly > 1% functionality of a junior.
You can see why companies are tripping over themselves to push this new modality.
I was just ballparking the salary. Say it’s only 100x. Does the argument change? It’s a lot more money to pay for a real person.
Wasn’t it clear that our comments are in agreement?
It wasn’t, but now it is.
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