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by gorjusborg 83 days ago
What is 'over' is the idea that AI assisted coding is only hype that will go away. It is clear that software development is going to be different in ways we've not seen before.
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What happens when no one can code or wrangle the codebases without the $1k/day/dev agentic harness?
Isn't that already true for a lot of companies with old legacy systems?
Same tired argument from when compilers couldn't unroll a for loop, or from when photoshop was new. Did you think you would become that guy when you were young?
The pricing issue is valid, though. It's hard to use a lot of these tools in anger without having to go to fairly expensive plans.
Insignificant compared to salaries in most countries.