The premium models are worth 10% of your income at least.

There is no future without these models. They truly are an entirely different league than the cheap stuff. You can move mountains with Astra or Opus 5.5.

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lbrito a day ago | parent | next [-]

10% of a software engineer salary is a lot of money. That's just ridiculous.

Like the other commentor said, its just going to be a net negative, because whatever productivity increase you supposedly do get, you will see exactly 0 of that translated into salary increase.

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

Have you tried to negotiate a 10% pay raise because “you can move mountains with Astra or Opus 5.5”? I’d wager you’re more likely to get a “the fuck do we need you for then” than that pay raise.

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jrumbut 21 hours ago | parent [-]

The whole AI issue is and always has been a social question. It's hardly a ridiculous concept to have a skilled worker control a $10k budget to buy tools. In many fields that is normal.

Previously, the tools in our field were free or trivial cost. Seems like that has changed, that's OK, there are models to solve that.

I teach a couple courses currently, there is an enormous gap between what my students can create with AI and what I can create with AI. I don't think it's that much smaller than the difference of what we can create without, the only difference is that the schedules are compressed.

	▲	pjmlp 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They surely weren't, and piracy was quite common in many European countries, buying tapes and floppies from bazaars back in the days.

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etdznots 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Let’s see the moved mountains I’m sitting here waiting to see any improvement in software

	▲	neta1337 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		On the contrary, I say software got even worse

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tomgp 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Even if you believe this surely it should be paid for by the employer not the individual.

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

I swap between Fable and GLM 5.X and both work fine. Fable tends to do stuff that I didn't want it to do, and claude is probably a bit more capable as a harness (though I haven't spent the effort configuring pi properly yet so that's probably on me). Otherwise it's hard to spot the difference.

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

I think you're off by a few orders of magnitude on cost.

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

People generally don't have 10% of their income to just give away on a whim.

Additionally, if I'm 10% more productive I don't get a 10% pay increase.

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nozzlegear 21 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> You can move mountains with Astra or Opus 5.5.

Mountains that were made out of molehills, an ever-growing heap of bullshit.