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by wolfi1 3 days ago
but not necessarily costs
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Time's expensive too.
on the other hand you spend time and tokens using the AI approach
It's like hiring someone to do part of your job for you, which is a rather proven approach to getting more done in less time. A proud tradition going back hundreds of thousands of years.
Except when you buy tokens instead of hiring someone, you buy Sam Altman a yacht instead of buying somebody dinner.
Yeah, though unfortunately paying anyone I know to fix my code sure isn't going to go nearly as well as asking Claude. Or at all.

A word of advice from an European: Tax the rich. Then you no longer have these problems. Even running a local model just shifts the yacht to Jensen Huang instead.