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Your $5,000 PC with 2 GPUs could have bought you 2 years of Claude Max, a model much more powerful and with longer context. In 2 years you could make that inves
by visarga 8mo ago
Your $5,000 PC with 2 GPUs could have bought you 2 years of Claude Max, a model much more powerful and with longer context. In 2 years you could make that investment back in pay raise.
- dymk 8mo agoThis claim has so many assumptions mixed in it's utterly useless
- benterix 8mo ago> In 2 years you could make that investment back in pay raise. Could you elaborate? I fail to grasp the implication here.
- tw1984 8mo ago> In 2 years you could make that investment back in pay raise. you can't be a happy uber driver making more money in the next 24 months by having a fancy car fitted with the best FSD in town when all cars in your town have the same FSD.
- visarga 8mo agoBut they don't have the same human in the loop though.
- tw1984 8mo agothat software is called autonomous agents, the term autonomous has nothing to do with human in the loop, it is the complete opposite.
- drdaeman 8mo agoNothing changed since ’87. Machines still can’t be accountable and still shouldn’t make managerial decisions. Acceptance control is one of those decisions, and all the technical knowledge still matters to form a well-informed one. It may change, of course, but I have an impression that those who try otherwise seem to not fare well after the initial vibecoding honeymoon period. Of course, it varies from case to case - sometimes machines get things right, but long-term luck seems to eventually run out.