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toddwpriceyesterday at 3:35 PM3 repliesview on HN

Coding is solved, perhaps, with unlimited token spend on a frontier model. It remains to be seen if it that is prohibitively expensive forever. At my company, we token maxed while the getting was good. But when we had to switch to Anthropic's enterprise plan, and start paying per token, the shit really hit the fan. Now we're retreating back to sane cost levels and finding that - guess what? - people power might just be more cost effective. AI of course is an immense tool to leverage, but still too expensive to create loops and let it run. This will change over time of course, but assuming it is a solved problem is nonsense. Maybe if we solve cold fusion, yes. Until then, evolution is winning the war on entropy.


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NichoPaolucciyesterday at 7:00 PM

I'm interested in hearing more about your experience here.

Were you all just full bore shipping a ton with the per token plans? Was it more effective? How many developers @ your company?

It's really interesting to hear that some companies are back-pedaling. We "slowed" down a bit but are still very much using AI and intend to continue using it for... almost everything.

suprjamiyesterday at 10:50 PM

> Coding is solved, perhaps, with unlimited token spend on a frontier model.

Coding is also a solved problem with unlimited salary budget on the very best developers.

greenowlyesterday at 7:12 PM

How did the developers react when they had to go back to writing their own code instead of playing Nintendo Switch between prompting sessions?

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