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The actual rate isn’t relevant for the discussion
by dgellow 7mo ago
The actual rate isn’t relevant for the discussion
- Miner49er 7mo agoWell it might. If the actual rate is .9x then it matters a lot. Or even if it's like 1.1x, is the cost worth the return?
- xvector 7mo agoThe cost is so small relative to the increase. The cost whining on HN is bizarre to me. Feels like everyone here is on an individual plan and has no understanding of what margins look like for actual business. Meta pays $750k+ TC and makes far more profit/eng, do you think they care about $5k/eng/mo in inference? A 1.1x increase would be so significant that it would justify the cost easily, especially when you can just compress comps to make up for it
- otabdeveloper4 7mo agoWhat? You don't think businesses do financial planning and calculations for profit margins? Do you really think they go on vibes - "welp, this AI thing seems to improve developer performance, I guess. Heck, what's an extra 5k per developer anyways, amirite". Well, maybe they really do in your neck of the woods. Explains a lot, I guess.
- xvector 7mo agoYes most companies do in fact operate like this. There are tens of thousands of companies that will pay more for the best thing and call it at that, because the cost is dwarfed by what even marginal gains in quality unlock for the business.
- otabdeveloper4 7mo ago> the cost is dwarfed by what even marginal gains in quality That is just, like, your opinion, man. Also, I doubt these kinds of companies have "quality" of anything, never mind "gains in quality".
- AlexeyBelov 7mo agoNobody is whining here.
- surgical_fire 7mo agoWhat if the rate is negative? Would it matter?
- dgellow 7mo agoIt would matter but would be a different discussion than the one I was going for