alt Hacker NewsLet's put it this way, how much is 5% productivity bump worth to you?
If you're in the US and you're making 100k a year, that's worth 5k or $416/m. So you can buy two of the most expensive plans on the frontier models.
This focus on cost optimization is insane. Just use the frontier models. Even a marginal bump is worth whatever the hell they're charging, at least for now.
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Everyone else will be 5% more productive. Then no one is "more" productive. So everyone has a higher output, but the same wages and hours worked. There was only a gap when usable AI first came out, some contractors could do the same quantity of work in less time and enjoy time off or do more jobs. Now the gap has closed or is closing. And using AI now is more about not being less productive than peers who do use it.
The problem is it might be worth it to the company, but likely not to you - a 5% productivity bump likely results in $100k a year.
large companies aren’t buying subscription plans. my org has a 2k per month token budget per person and starting to explore optimizations like automatic model routing.
You're saying this like I would see that 5k in my bank account. If I'm 5% more productive that probably wouldn't even make it into annual review, let alone pay.
There is no evidence that these tools provide a 5% bump, if anything they are providing a 20% liability (pulling random numbers is fun).
Also where is the evidence that the workers have ever benefited from productivity bumps? The only thing that happens is surplus gets captured by the owners while workers are forced to do more.
Bad deal all around.
Companies aren't paying for tokens so that their employees can capture the gains.