alt Hacker NewsMany many companies can afford to hire a junior engineer for $150k/year (plus employer payroll taxes, employee benefits etc.).
Are you spending more than $150k per year on AI?
(Also, you're talking about the cost of your Cursor subscription, when the article is about Claude Code. Maybe try Claude Max instead?)
If it could do anything that a junior dev could, that’d be a valid point of comparison. But it continually, wildly performs slower and falls short every time I’ve tried.