alt Hacker News> What it cost us
> None of this was free. Through the summer, much of our engineering effort went into tests and tooling, and customer-facing changes per engineer stayed between 17 and 30 a month.
What it cost you is that you helped the AI labs become better engineers. At a certain point the Big Flip will happen, and the AI labs will stop their offerings and instead start competing with the engineers.
This assumes that it’s more profitable for these labs to compete with their own customers, rather than increasing the productivity for their customers and - assuming this increase justifies it - increasing their profits.
I don’t think it will ever reach such a point.