[conartist6]

It's just arbitrage.

You aren't a programmer. The basic nature of your work is not serving users with better software, but buying $1000 of currency for $200.

[Flavius]

Just as a tractor operator isn't truly a farmer if he doesn't engage in heavy manual labor. Who does he think he is, traversing the fields with a machine that merely converts diesel into grain?

[Eggpants]

This narrative has been pushed hard lately that $200 a month is a “bargain” because it’s “worth” $1000. If that’s true, then these companies will be running out of venture capital money very soon. Then their only recourse will be to sell themselves or insert ads into LLM responses then this will be a total shit show.

It’s easy to see how trivial it will be to have an adwords type operation where output tokens are replaced with paid values.

For example:

this_varable_is_sponsored_by_starbucks = 42

[mdaniel]

That would be a terrible revenue model because no one's going to read code anymore, they're going to just keep piling on agents until the vibes align