> If you were starting a business for a great software idea, with your own savings on the line, would you hire 10 AI hostile programmers to implement the idea or 2 AI friendly people and get them some subscriptions to the top models?

Are you saying that 10 programmers cost as much as 2 random people and some LLM subscriptions? Sign me up for the 10 programmers, then. I wouldn’t even need most of them, I’ve done a lot with teams of two and three, and more may just get in the way. I couldn’t care less how “AI friendly” the other people are; if they’re not programmers, using LLMs to produce a program is going to lead to bad results. Why would I even hire them? Might as well do the prompting myself if the results are that good in your fantasy scenario.

> Remember: if it doesn't come together, it's YOUR money on the line.

So, if it doesn’t come together, I either empowered 10 people to feed their families, gave them opportunities to hone their skills, and possibly developed new friendships and contacts for future endeavours (where maybe next time they’ll even hire me); or I helped just 2 people with no return and lined the pockets of rich people who are actively exploiting everyone else and destroying the environment and social trust for personal profit.

Your scenario is truly bizarre. Is it just an obvious ploy to detect those who lack in empathy and only think of personal profit?