I'm happy I invested in local solutions and cutting context to the bone for API providers. Claims about AI being able to fully replace programmers never took into account the long-run equilibrium price of inference.

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dist-epoch 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Already there are companies paying more for coding tokens than for programmer salaries.

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bachmeier 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That's my point. They made those decisions without any consideration for the long run, which would have required them to project the cost of AI services years into the future. Obviously management didn't do that and had no way to do that. It made current earnings look good, though, which was enough for them when they made the decision.

	▲	dist-epoch 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Not sure what your point is, but they are firing lower performing programmers so that the top programmers have more tokens to spend.

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xienze 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Doesn't necessarily mean that's a good idea.