alt Hacker NewsThe Uber $1,500/engineer/month thing is just the first signal we have had of the price companies may be willing to accept. This price will clearly vary wildly across professions, industries and geographies.
I think it's a poor number to build an "AI is slowing down" narrative around.
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lunar_mycroft • last Monday at 11:42 PM
Uber is not the only company that's putting a per-developer limit on AI spending. I know this because I work for another one (and we have a significantly lower limit). You just heard about Uber first because they're high profile.
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The problem is that $1500/engineer/month would be a pretty modest amount of demand for labs. OpenAI/Anthropic are basing their $1T valuations on the explosive uncapped growth of unlimited agentic token spending. On so many levels of the industry this growth is now priced in. You don't think so?