alt Hacker NewsOnce your dependent, they can drive up the price just because. It doesn't need to be for existential reasons.
This is the crisis point for vibe-coders. A developer can go back to writing code by hand, as horrible as that might sound. Someone who hasn't learned to code but builds with AI can't go back. They either pay or they stop. That will be an painful choice whichever way you fall.
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jcgrillo • today at 4:17 PM
There's a secret third option: learn. At one point, all of us were "nontechnical", but we learned. The trick is to never stop.
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There are already open weight models out there that are capable and cheap enough for a lot of coding tasks. Not as good as Claude but not far from it. There's no going back to pre-AI coding.