alt Hacker NewsWhere to, that's the question. The economy is in the gutters and the replace-people-with-AI craze is making the issue even worse.
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Now as you can see from the article, it starts turning. People are getting less pricey than agents on API pricing.
Copilot switches to API pricing starting next month (let's see how long it will last for our $39, and $19 since September), Anthropic switches all corps into API based pricing. From the most popular choices I think only Codex didn't switch yet (although it is hard to tell because I don't know their enterprise pricing).
> The economy is in the gutters
Consumer sentiment is in the gutters certainly. But objective measures of the economy like unemployment and real wages look good to excellent
And open positions are simply because someone decided to run from that place
Perhaps for now. But you know, after working solid with AI for two years and adopting effective methods using detailed plans, and having a lot of success with it, here is the problem:
Coding faster leads to less understanding and higher long-term risk. Source-Code amnesia is real, and there’s a time requirement to really understand and appreciate what a system is actually doing.
I’ve been able to implement very large features using frontier models, but the code needs to always be revisited.
AI can do two things: find vulnerabilities, and prototype code. It cannot design software, and any appearance of such is an illusion at best.
We don’t need to produce faster to be successful, we need to create better, long lasting products.