[disgruntledphd2]

> Meanwhile, there are tons of us out there who are paying $20, $30, $50 per month and upwards for these tool as they are, and wouldn't want to go without.

I'm paying for Claude, which I find super helpful (although mostly for side-projecty stuff rather than dayjob). I'd definitely pay double what it costs today, particularly if I went back to shorter-term environments where I think it shines.

If you can't hook it up to your codebase/you write in a language where it's not great (it doesn't seem good at Elisp at all, at all) then I could see how people might not find the value.

Nonetheless, despite finding these tools useful, I too am sceptical about whether or not there's a valuable business there.

For context, I said this about Uber, WeWork and a bunch of other startups that never really monetised. Note that I also said that about Facebook, where I was completely wrong.