[nalekberov]

What is the point of allowing a developer to spend $18,000 a year on AI subscriptions? Can't they hire a decent developer who is capable of producing a quality solution faster? Clearly, these decisions are all made by high-level management team.

I was recently talking to an HR person from a European company, and she goes: 'We are forcing our developers to use AI coding agents, but they are still kind of hesitant.' This person had never written a single line of code, nor did she know what software engineering is. For these people, using AI coding agents = faster delivery without breaking anything.

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It costs a lot more than $18,000 to hire a decent developer, pretty much anywhere in the world. Also using a model is better than another developer in some ways, because there aren't two independent minds trying to work with each other.