[__mharrison__]

Interesting world we live in.

I just finished teaching an advanced data science course for one of my clients. I found my self constantly twitching everytime I said "when I write code..." I'm barely writing code at all these days. But I created $100k worth of code just yesterday recreating a poorly maintained (and poor ux) library. Tested and uploaded to pypi in 90 minutes.

A lot of the conversation in my course was directed to leveraged AI (and discussions of existential dread of AI replacement).

This article is a wonderful example of an expert leveraging AI to do normal work 100x faster.

[masijo]

>But I created $100k worth of code just yesterday recreating a poorly maintained (and poor ux) library.

How, exactly, are you calculating the worth of your code? Did you manage to sell in the same day? Why is it "worth $100k"?

[appreciatorBus]

Exactly.

If it took 90 minutes + a Claude Code subscription then the most anyone else is going to be willing to pay for the same code is... ~90 minutes of wages + a Claude Code subscription.

Ofc the person earning those wages will be more skilled than most, but unless those skills are incredibly rare & unique, it's unlikely 90 minutes of their time will be worth $100k.

And ofc, the market value of this code could be higher, even much higher, the the cost to produce it, but for this to be the case, there needs to be some sort of moat, some sort of reason another similarly skilled person cannot just use Claude to whip up something similar in their 90 minutes.

[__mharrison__]

It's open source scratching an itch. But 99.9% of coders wouldn't know what the library is for. Those that do don't use agents for coding (in my experience sample size 1).

[LtWorf]

Then we could say your initial estimate for the value was overestimated?

[__mharrison__]

sloccount

[croemer]

So the more junk lines the more it's worth. Right.

Don't use bogus $ from sloccount. Just say I created a 10k line project.

[__mharrison__]

Loc means nothing. Tokens burned is a better metric.

[solarkraft]

That’s insane.

[pxtail]

Only $100k worth code? Rookie numbers, you must be new to the game

[__mharrison__]

Doing my part to burn $50k tokens in a year as per the Jensen mandate.

[anematode]

Dear lord. Are you at least transparent with your clients that this is the standard to which you hold your own code?

[__mharrison__]

$100k was the quote of the project from sloccount... (No one paid me for this. I created it for myself.)

[Chris2048]

A LoC based valuation probably assume humans writing code and therefor work-hour costs, I'd bet it no longer applies to generated LoCs.

[einr]

This article is a wonderful example of an expert leveraging AI to do normal work 100x faster.

This article is an example of an AI agent taking 40 minutes to do some basic ass sysadmin troubleshooting tasks. 100x faster than who? An ”expert”?