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Not OP - I use it non-stop for boiler plate filling as well. I wouldn't use it for anything other than that, so I would say it's worth honestly at max $1/month
by raunak 4y ago
Not OP - I use it non-stop for boiler plate filling as well.
I wouldn't use it for anything other than that, so I would say it's worth honestly at max $1/month.
- tedunangst 4y ago$1 is worth what, one minute of your time? If you're using a tool that doesn't even save you one minute, why bother?
- presentation 4y agoMost people don't make purchasing decisions based on the value they create but rather based on some ingrained assumptions about how expensive software is supposed to be. VSCode and many other complex pieces of software are free, autocomplete is built into my OS, and those subscription consumer software that does have a price usually are priced very low—so relative to those, $10/month feels like a lot (even though I hope that practically anything anyone makes the effort to subscribe to produces at least $10 of value for them). Some companies seem to be leaning into higher subscription pricing (Superhuman and Motion come to mind) and almost certainly produce far more value than their subscriptions cost if you ask me, but there's definitely a mental barrier to value based pricing to consumers, as well as the fact that with so many companies offering cheap/free software, the market isn't solely determined by value created but rather comparison against other software.
- tedunangst 4y agoYou'd think "very smart" programmers would be equipped to do basic cost/benefit analysis. If it costs $900 and provides $1000 in value, that's $100 more than not buying it.
- conradfr 4y agoIt depends if as a employee, your working time stays the same.
- zarzavat 4y agoIf you’re an employee your company should pay for it. If not, find a better employer!
- account42 4y agoYou'd think "very smart" programmers would be equipped to consider additional factors such as the cost of getting reliant on a tool controlled by a single vendor as well as the effects on other things that they care about. You'd think they also understand that people are not machines and reducing a task by a certain time does not neccessarily mean that they can get that much more work more done overall.
- tedunangst 4y agoIf the amortized benefit is less than one minute per month, then it's probably best to simply pass instead of hoping for a price adjustment.
- xigoi 4y agoWhat proportion of people are making $1 per minute?
- tedunangst 4y ago$1 per minute is approximately $120k annual salary, so... almost anybody doing software development in the US?
- price 4y agoThat's not true. The median annual pay for a software engineer in the US is a bit under $100k. (The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes good data on this.) That means most people doing software development in the US are making under $100k. Almost anybody doing software development at a well-funded tech company is going to be making over $120k/yr, yes. But it turns out there are lots of other kinds of programming jobs, too.
- xigoi 4y agoAnd the USA is what, 4% of the world population?