So prices will need to increase -- if it makes a senior engineer 10x more productive then coding assistants could easily cost 20x-100x more then what they cost today. Same for video generation.

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echelon a day ago | parent [-]

Given that 10x engineers cost in the millions and that movies cost in the hundreds of millions - this is okay!

Edit: HN rate limit won't let me reply, so here -

I'm saying that hiring ten senior engineer costs millions. (Not a single 10xer - that's such a debated thing anyway, Fabrice Bellard or not.)

AI companies will make bank when they've hooked us all on the tools and raise prices.

Companies would likely rather pay $500k/yr to Anthropic and $750k/yr to engineers than $2M/yr to an uneven team of humans with HR, taxes, and other expenses, attrition, etc.

Anthropic is going to make bank.

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joe_mamba a day ago | parent | next [-]

How many 10x engineers paid millions are out there? How can you stay in business as an AI company by only charging those 10x engineers 200/month?

Edit: Fabrice Bellard is a 10x engineers because he invents cool and innovative tools that didn't exist, not because he can bang out code 10x faster. AI can't replace fabrice Ballard.

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fauigerzigerk a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The price of tools isn't determined by how much money they make or save the user. That's just the price cap. The price floor (in the long run) is the cost of making the tool. The actual price will be somewhere in between depending on competition.

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alt227 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Edit: HN rate limit won't let me reply, so here -

There is a reason for that...

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Bombthecat a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Yap, that's what people don't want to hear.

Right now we are in the cheap phase.

Price can easily triple

	▲	s1mplicissimus a day ago \| parent [-]
		> Price can easily triple They can just as easily plummet to a fraction. Really depends on wether there's value for the entities that are paying