[fzeroracer]

Unfortunately the corporate machine has been converging on a bus factor of 0. I've been part of multiple teams now where I was the only one holding knowledge over critical subsystems and whenever I attempted to train people on it, it was futile. Mainly because they would get laid off doing 'cost-savings measures'.

There were times where I was close to getting fed up and just quitting during some of the high profile ops I had to deal with which would've left the entire system inoperable for an extended period of time. And frankly from talking to a lot of other engineers, it sounds like a lot of companies operate in this manner.

I fully expect a lot of these issues to come home to roost as AI compounds loss of institutional knowledge and leads to rapid system decay.

[bigiain]

My guess? The AI companies will keep the free and $20/month plans to entice developers and their managers. They will have $200/month plans with bigger context windows to allow effective work on larger that toy codebases. But sooner or later companies with large scale projects are going to need a much larger context window, that _that_ will suddenly become a $200k/year/developer subscription. There's a lot of correlation between "institutional knowledge" and context window I think.

[jrs235]

Interesting. I just posted a similar comment as a sister comment to yours above (at least at the time of reading the thread) to another persons comment about cost of AI code going to zero... Which was basically the same as you believe here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44970251