[rodgerd]

> If anything, I would suspect that the developers have become costlier over time, at least in the last 10 years or so.

Really? Have developer costs actually increased in real terms in the last 10 years? Have your developer costs (if you're outside the VC/SV bubble) increased in real terms? And how much?

This seems like a terrible assumption.

[jerf]

The real point is that developer time has not kept up with the rate of RAM price decrease, and unless you plan on seriously defending the claim that developers only cost 1/6000th of what they used to twenty years ago, the points in the blog post stand.