So if the AI could do the same work on huge codebases with far fewer tokens, would it be good or bad for the AI companies do you think?

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anon84873628 a day ago | parent | next [-]

Unquestionably good. They want a product that provides value anywhere it's tried so as to establish the reputation as a magic human replacement. Gaming consumption based pricing at this point would be quitting before the race is over. They can always tweak the pricing knobs later once the industry is fully hooked.

	▲	conartist6 a day ago \| parent [-]
		Right but what if the thing that made fewer tokens necessary also kneecapped the idea of making humans dependent on AI to write software.

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lukan a day ago | parent | prev [-]

It would be good for the first AI company offering this.

	▲	conartist6 a day ago \| parent [-]
		Or an anti-ai company of course too; one whose goal was to level the playing field between humans and AIs again