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Yeah the cost doesn't justify the value. Spending x3 on tokens is meaningless if they aren't seeing the profit side scale with it. Going faster on product featu

Yeah the cost doesn't justify the value. Spending x3 on tokens is meaningless if they aren't seeing the profit side scale with it. Going faster on product features doesn't mean it translates to more money. In fact I'm not even sure some customers can handle the speed at which a team could move with feature delivery. So scaling horizontally in different markets seems like an advantage if a product is already mature. Which is exactly what Anthropic and Open AI are doing because they want to put their tentacles in everything.

steveBK123 3mo ago
> Going faster on product features doesn't mean it translates to more money. Exactly this. Unless the new features directly drive new users or new revenue from existing users, for many products iterating 2x faster does not mean 2x ROI. Additionally, from anecdotes here, at work, and in my network.. a lot of the unlocked developer velocity is going to fun/frivolous/extra things. I think part of it is developers have their own features they want for themselves that are the easiest and most direct thing to deploy LLMs against, in the absence of good direction. Yes it's cool you finally achieved 100% test coverage, or you wrote a new utility that makes your job easier, or cleared the 2 year old ticket that was 100 deep in your backlog, etc. But there were ROI reasons these things were not done previously. That's already putting aside the fact that development going 3x faster doesn't increase end to end output by 3x because <100% of a SWEs job is development.
- oblio 3mo ago
  > a lot of the unlocked developer velocity is going to fun/frivolous/extra things https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yak_shaving https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yak_shaving And I'll have you know I'm a Grand Master Yak Shaver.