good question. maintenance is cheap with tools like astra/opus. also, these aren't production level applications, so I don't need to worry about it being "perfect" (though there's no such thing)
0. "The cost of achieving a given level of AI performance has fallen about 47% per quarter since 2023, or 13× per year." https://epoch.ai/publications/the-plunging-price-of-thought
What do you mean? They need to recover hundreds of billions in sunk costs?
So, same end result (cost exceeds hiring a new engineer), but achieved differently.
The counter, I suppose, is the managers have to deal less with engineers telling them their ideas aren't good or well thought out.
1.) open weight models gain more popularity 2.) i'm making more money from these models than paying for them
if either happens, then I'll feel good about it either way
It's always about cheaper, better, faster. And when the thing being built extends beyond a single person, and still when working alone, conflict shows up in balancing the risks between these. The Strawman of Perfection is just that.
"It doesn't need to be perfect" is incredibly dismissive of the reality of the situation. Ignoring reality seems like a poor problem solving strategy.