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It doesn't, though. $200/mo of Claude may give you what would have cost tens of thousands of dollars to create in 2023, but the value of what it creates isn't
by margalabargala 2mo ago
It doesn't, though.
$200/mo of Claude may give you what would have cost tens of thousands of dollars to create in 2023, but the value of what it creates isn't there anymore. It should be compared against what it would cost to create with other tools, not against the cost of you doing it by hand.
Otherwise would be like justifying an obviously overpriced car, because "it saves me so much compared to carrying things thousands of miles by hand!"
- cadamsdotcom 2mo agoYour comparison is wrong It's not an expensive car vs. any car. It's car vs. no car.
- SV_BubbleTime 2mo agoIs it? Because you can just download a car now.
- margalabargala 2mo agoNo, you are wrong. Or at least, incomplete. The comment I replied to said "I need Claude because it's better than no AI. That's like saying "I need the Porsche because it's better than no car". Making a "car vs no car" argument is not an argument for an expensive car. Making an argument for an expensive car, requires both car vs no car, and expensive car vs any car. This is what I was pointing out above.
- cadamsdotcom 2mo agoMy argument may be wrong, but I myself am just fine, thank you.
- margalabargala 2mo agoI don't know about that. There's something not quite right going on with you. The deliberate misunderstanding, the faux outrage..just fine, I doubt it.
- cadamsdotcom 2mo agoPoint taken & let's get back on track. I agree it's incomplete what I wrote; you were right to call it out. When you as an individual are getting tens of thousands of dollars of value from a $100 item and someone says there's a slightly-worse version for $1 but can't tell you if you'll find it slightly worse or noticeably worse.. you have to stop what you're doing to evaluate them, pay switching costs etc etc. so the cost difference is less than $99 and might actually be negative, and the difference in margin after paying switching costs is negligible. So your rational response is to investigate to lower the stakes - but even performing the investigation eats into the time you're spending getting your tens of thousands of dollars of value.