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>Assuming no magical AGI singularity, by the end of the day, they're still selling the same services, but the services have gotten more expensive for them to pr
by Legend2440 4mo ago
>Assuming no magical AGI singularity, by the end of the day, they're still selling the same services, but the services have gotten more expensive for them to provide.
Well, they're hoping to sell new services on expensive $200/month subscriptions.
The hope is that agents have more value than traditional software, because they do the work for you instead of just enabling you to do the work.
- entropi 4mo agoBut if they do the work for me, then my time is less valuable. If my time is less valuable, I won't pay more to save more of my time.
- Legend2440 4mo agoOn the contrary, your time becomes more valuable the more tasks you automate, as your productivity per unit of time goes up. The time of a factory worker who runs machines producing 200000 widgets per hour is far more valuable than the time of a worker making 1 widget per hour by hand.
- entropi 4mo agoYeah but the money I receive is almost completely decoupled from the value I create. In fact, this can only reduce the value of my time since now my expertise is perceived to be commodified.
- Legend2440 4mo agoAlso not true. The factory worker is paid more than the worker making widgets by hand. GDP per capita has a strong correlation with average wages. The more productive your economy, the more money the average person makes.
- fridder 4mo agothere has been a decoupling of productivity gains and wage increases for some time. Not completely disconnected yet but still