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by SadWebDeveloper 978 days ago
I would gladly pay for copilot 5 USD a month (its an specific use case IA), but the current price point 20 month is incredible expensive it only add costs if the developer you are hiring requires it to properly function... thats the only value it adds.

IMHO If you are a code monkey copilot makes you a 5x developer, 10x if you have 5+ years of experience on the business

Maybe selling tokens/search could be benefitial for copilot, like only pay for what i use will be an interesting approach.
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WillPostForFood 978 days ago
$20 a month is incredibly expensive? If it saves 15 minutes over a month, it pays for itself (assuming your work is ~$100/hr). If it can provide any positive value, it is going to be worth more the $5 a month.
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SadWebDeveloper 978 days ago
Maybe if you live around the bay area where you get paid absurd money by the hour for a job that can be done overseas for 10 bucks, outside or the rest of the world that 100 usd is per week tops, thats way too much i would pay for service that only barely helps my in my day to day...

If you need to constantly use chatgpt/copilot to do your job properly, maybe its time to learn something else because your job will be automated sooner or later, what will be more cheaper a 100/hr or the 20/month service.

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WillPostForFood 978 days ago
Does it barely help you, or can it completely automate your job? You can't have it both ways.

I find it hard to believe there is a scenario where it actually helps you, but only provides $5 of value in a month.

What exact kind help is that? If it is able to provide $5 in help, you could likely scale that to $20.

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SadWebDeveloper 978 days ago
are we talking about copilot or chatgpt? chatgpt4 provides more value than copilot since i can use it for other things, copilot is just for "code" and doesn't provide any value other than autocomplete prediction to me...

Maybe if you are website designer... ohh m sorry i should say the modern way website designers call themselves today "frontend engineer", maybe if you are a designer it could help you with all the boilerplate your react/astro/svelte requires just to add a <table> with two columns.

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