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Meh. I would prefer hiring a junior programmer if I have to do that much review and mentoring. At least a real person would get the benefits rather than some te
by gregjor 3y ago
Meh. I would prefer hiring a junior programmer if I have to do that much review and mentoring. At least a real person would get the benefits rather than some tech giant that wants to take away jobs and profit from the work of others.
- meiraleal 3y agoYou prefer to pay 3-5k usd to a person in place of 20 usd to a tech company?
- gregjor 3y agoYes. You get what you pay for. ChatGPT et al just waste my time. I don't need hundreds more lines of code. I need thinking and learning and solutions to business problems. The costs of AI code generation go much higher than $20 because I have to spend so much time "prompting" and checking and testing stuff that I could have found on StackOverflow once for free. Also consider that $20/mo does not come close to the actual cost of running LLMs. The companies that own those things pour money into them and attract users to create a market they can dominate, spending investor money and taking advantage of public energy and water infrastructure. Once so-called AI has insinuated itself as a necessity the price will go up. Look at cloud hosting and software licenses for examples of the rent-seeking model. We're in the market-making stage now, overlooking the problems and limitations because of FOMO. You can already get keyboards and mice with copilot keys. Every company seems to rush to add "AI" to their software with no evidence that it makes anything better. We will just come to accept it, like cookie pop-ups and clicking on photos of fire hydrants, without asking why or how it improves anything.