alt Hacker News> The models don’t have to get better, the costs don’t have to come down (heck, they could even double and it’d still be worth it)
What worries me about this is that it might end up putting up a barrier for those that can't afford it. What do things look like if models cost $1000 or more a month and genuinely provide 3x productivity improvements?
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$1000 a month to make someone whose being $10,000 a month even 1.5x more productive is well worth the price.
They want you to have to pay for an advantage. If a single AI provider gets enough advantage, they'll be able to charge whatever they want.
I mean, your employer will pay it. $1K/month is cheap for your employer.
But there is an interesting point about what it does to hobby dev. If it takes real money just to screw around for fun on your own, it's kinda like going back to the old days when you needed to have an account on a big university system to do anything with Unix.
If they're paying you, they can afford it. Also, even if running large teams of coding agents becomes practical, you don't necessarily need more than one or two to learn.