[wolttam]

Yes, companies will hire employees that are significantly faster if they can do some for around the same cost.

And they can - the current crop of tools provide undeniable productivity uplifts to developers, even if they’re only using the cheaper open weight models.

I was like you, using them for one shot things until January of this year. My token usage has roughly 100x’d since then, once I saw the value in the agentic loop.

[konart]

>Yes, companies will hire employees that are significantly faster if they can do some for around the same cost.

And how do you test this when you hire? An interview where you have to implement something using LLM only?