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minus-squareerrer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down5·4 days 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-up13arrow-down2·4 days agoThe point is that comparing AI tools to junior engineers is ridiculous in the first place. It is simply marketing.
minus-squarelIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·4 days 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-up2·4 days 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-up3·4 days 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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