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minus-squareFeyd@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·29 days agoAI tools are way less useful than a junior engineer, and they aren’t an investment that turns into a senior engineer either.
minus-squareerrer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·29 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-squarelIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·29 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-up0·29 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-up0arrow-down1·29 days agoWasn’t it clear that our comments are in agreement?
minus-squarelIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·29 days agoIs “way less useful” something you can cite with a source, or is that just feelings?
minus-squareFeyd@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·29 days agoIt is based on my experience, which I trust immeasurably more than rigged “studies” done by the big LLM companies with clear conflict of interest.
minus-squarelIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·29 days agoUnderstood, thanks for being honest
AI tools are way less useful than a junior engineer, and they aren’t an investment that turns into a senior engineer either.
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…
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.
❤️
Is “way less useful” something you can cite with a source, or is that just feelings?
It is based on my experience, which I trust immeasurably more than rigged “studies” done by the big LLM companies with clear conflict of interest.
Understood, thanks for being honest