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Google Ultra: USD 250. Claude Pro: 218 EUR ChatGPT Pro: 220 EUR Not included: Perplexity, Openrouter, Cursor, etc Wow. You gotta have lots of disposable inco

Google Ultra: USD 250. Claude Pro: 218 EUR ChatGPT Pro: 220 EUR Not included: Perplexity, Openrouter, Cursor, etc Wow. You gotta have lots of disposable income.

thenaturalist 1y ago
There are enough people who do. ;) And from a business perspective, this is enabling people from solo freelancers to mid managers and others for a fraction of the time and cost required to outsource to humans. Not that I am personally in favor of this, but I can very much see the economics in these offerings.
loudmax 1y ago
The target market for these offerings are corporations, or self-employed developers. If these tools really do make your developers more productive, $250 a month is easily justifiable. That's only $3000 per year, a fraction of the cost of a full time developer. Obviously, the benefit is contingent on whether or not the models actually make your developers more productive.
- catigula 1y ago
  Do any of these companies actually sell their products as developer replacements?
  - mwigdahl 1y ago
    No, but they do sell them as developer augmentations.
    - catigula 1y ago
      Interesting because that post was comparing the cost directly to a developer salary.
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- 6510 1y ago
  I hear it doesn't have to be productive right now, if you have deep pockets it is worth being familiar with the tools even if it is just in case.
- mattfrommars 1y ago
  $250 a month is still a lot of money in India to spend on a digital product.
  - kkarakk 1y ago
    AI has completely eliminated salary adjusted pricing in software. no discounts for 3rd world in anything.
- ivm 1y ago
  Yup, I was paying $225/mo for three Unity3D subscriptions (basic+iOS+Android) ten years ago, while earning less than $4k/mo – just considered it part of my self-employed expenses.
eastbound 1y ago
The goal is to capture all your disposable AI income, so they can starve the competitors. The goal is, as long as you subscribe to several, increase the price. And you haven’t strung the price that stings yet.
ZeroTalent 1y ago
that $250/month can make you $20k/month if you do some automation and subjectively unethical things
- lazharichir 1y ago
  Like taking on a gazillion of contract work?
  - hollowturtle 1y ago
    Apart from clients that usually are not stupid, you still need to understand requirements to guide the ai in a possible right direction. I don't usually understand boss tickets at first look, very often we need to discuss them, i doubt an ai could despite the hype
add-sub-mul-div 1y ago
And this is still early days, the pre-enshittification era.
voidspark 1y ago
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paxys 1y ago
This isn't a luxury purchase. If you aren't able to increase your income by $250/mo using these tools or otherwise get $250/mo worth of value out of them then you shouldn't sign up.
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Google Ultra: USD 250. Claude Pro: 218 EUR ChatGPT Pro: 220 EUR Not included: Perplexity, Openrouter, Cursor, etc Wow. You gotta have lots of disposable income.

thenaturalist 1y ago

There are enough people who do. ;) And from a business perspective, this is enabling people from solo freelancers to mid managers and others for a fraction of the time and cost required to outsource to humans. Not that I am personally in favor of this, but I can very much see the economics in these offerings.

loudmax 1y ago

The target market for these offerings are corporations, or self-employed developers. If these tools really do make your developers more productive, $250 a month is easily justifiable. That's only $3000 per year, a fraction of the cost of a full time developer. Obviously, the benefit is contingent on whether or not the models actually make your developers more productive.

catigula 1y ago
Do any of these companies actually sell their products as developer replacements?
- mwigdahl 1y ago
  No, but they do sell them as developer augmentations.
  - catigula 1y ago
    Interesting because that post was comparing the cost directly to a developer salary.
- deleted 1y ago
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6510 1y ago
I hear it doesn't have to be productive right now, if you have deep pockets it is worth being familiar with the tools even if it is just in case.
mattfrommars 1y ago
$250 a month is still a lot of money in India to spend on a digital product.
- kkarakk 1y ago
  AI has completely eliminated salary adjusted pricing in software. no discounts for 3rd world in anything.
ivm 1y ago
Yup, I was paying $225/mo for three Unity3D subscriptions (basic+iOS+Android) ten years ago, while earning less than $4k/mo – just considered it part of my self-employed expenses.

eastbound 1y ago

The goal is to capture all your disposable AI income, so they can starve the competitors. The goal is, as long as you subscribe to several, increase the price. And you haven’t strung the price that stings yet.

ZeroTalent 1y ago

that $250/month can make you $20k/month if you do some automation and subjectively unethical things

lazharichir 1y ago
Like taking on a gazillion of contract work?
- hollowturtle 1y ago
  Apart from clients that usually are not stupid, you still need to understand requirements to guide the ai in a possible right direction. I don't usually understand boss tickets at first look, very often we need to discuss them, i doubt an ai could despite the hype

add-sub-mul-div 1y ago

And this is still early days, the pre-enshittification era.

voidspark 1y ago

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paxys 1y ago

This isn't a luxury purchase. If you aren't able to increase your income by $250/mo using these tools or otherwise get $250/mo worth of value out of them then you shouldn't sign up.

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