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galleywest200today at 4:05 PM2 repliesview on HN

That is more than one month rent for most of the world. Most people are simply not going to pay this.


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wongarsutoday at 4:25 PM

My rent is less than that. But if you add up salary, payroll taxes, benefits, social security etc my employer still spends around four times that amount on employing me. More if you include misc overheads associated with having one more employee. Personally I could never afford 1500-2000€/month for dev tooling, but my employer should rationally be willing to spend that for anything that makes me more than 25% more effective.

I'm not sure today's Claude Code could ask for that. But I don't think it would be a crazy goal for them to work towards

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co_king_3today at 4:06 PM

Well then I'm sorry but unfortunately they are going to be left behind.

People who are cut out to be software developers can afford the means of production.

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