alt Hacker NewsSo the rosy biased estimate is OpenAI is saving 1 hour of work per day, so 5 hours total per-work week and 20 hours total per-month.
With a subsidized cost of $200/month for OpenAI it would be cheaper to hirer a part-time minimum wage worker than it would be to contract with OpenAI.
And that is the rosiest estimate OpenAI has.
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namesbc • last Friday at 3:35 PM
It you take of the rosy glasses, it is more like 10 hours saved per-month at an unsubsidized cost of $1000/month
The $100/hr is worth it for US programming jobs, but nothing else
AstroBen • last Friday at 5:18 AM
What people here forget is coding is a tiny minority of the actual usage. ~5% if I remember correctly?
Their best market might just be as a better Google with ads
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The closest I come to working with part-time, minimum-wage workers is working with student employees. Even then, they earn more and usually work more than five hours a week.
Most of the time, I end up putting in more work than I get out of it. Onboarding, reviewing, and mentoring all take significant time.
Even with the best students we had, paying around 400 euros a month, I would not say that I saved five hours a week.
And even when they reach the point of being truly productive, they are usually already finished with their studies. If we then hire them full-time, they cost significantly more.