>He estimated that light coding will cost him around $550 per month and full time coding around $1,950 per month. As an open source developer who builds for the

>He estimated that light coding will cost him around $550 per month and full time coding around $1,950 per month. As an open source developer who builds for the community, "this pricing is a kick in the shins," he said. Well maybe you shouldn't be using an enterprise AI coding toolset to do work that has historically been done for the love of coding and helping others. AI to do uncompensated labor is almost never going to work out financially like this. If it's really good enough to replace a decent engineer on a team, then those costs aren't "wallet-wrecking", it just means he needs to stay away from commercial products with commercial pricing. It's like complaining about the cost of one of VMWare's enterprise licenses for your home lab. I will also add that it's rare these days to see a new AWS product or service that doesn't cost many times what it should. Most of these things are geared towards companies who are all in on the AWS platform and for whom the cost of any given service is a matter of whether it's worth paying an employee to do whatever AWS manages with that service.