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I wonder what's the ceiling for these plans' prices. At some point, it becomes a non-negligible fraction of the salary for the employee, especially in non-US employment markets.

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A lot depends on how good open source models do. I know I can buy a 20k rig or whatever to get model X. If someone wants to charge me 3k a month to write code I just buy the hardware.

I’m interested: how would you spend $20k to get close to performance parity (speed and ability) with a frontier model?

rtx 6000 pro server edition

Once people become fully dependent the ceiling will be whatever they want it to be.

Not if there's competition.

I think there will be an employer backlash at some point. Paying an extra couple thousand in subscriptions so a junior can write copy-paste emails and Slack messages? Nah fam, write those yourself.

Or just use AI mode on Google's homepage. I asked it to find an article that compares a certain thing to another, which doesn't exist. So Google automatically wrote a 5 page article comparing the two things and built a proper article with cited references. Most people don't need a subscription to anything.

The google AI thing on their website gives me terrible results when I use it at work. Basically it's so unreliable I don't trust it. FWIW I don't log into a google account on my work devices (because we don't have Google enterprise services, and I'm not going to log into my personal Gmail account on my work computer) so that could be making a difference.

In my observation employers are willing to throw practically unlimited cash, probably because it’s directly funding a future where they don’t have to pay pesky engineers with their holidays and their pensions.

In my observation employers are quick to say “unlimited” and equally quick to say “no quite that unlimited.”

That's what I was thinking as well, especially in European countries where the employer has to pay a significant portion of social security, health insurance and pension where as with AI they don't have any such obligation and any money that is thrown is to build something for the company.

Of course a company doesn’t want to pay for someone to delegate all their work for an additional fee.

This is why some companies stopped hiring juniors. They would rather pay a mid-level or higher with the expectations that the LLM use will be a productivity booster in a more direct sense. So the bar also rises.

Or just not hire the junior at all and spend that money on tokens.

Its cute you tgink youll be the one leveraging AI.

> tgink

A token misfired

Sorry, asked copilotto think forme.

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