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0 pointsWowfunhappy8mo ago0 comments

> And at the bottom it’s revealed that this costs $200/month.

So, firstly, the limits on the $100/month plan are reasonably high in my experience. I do hit them, but it takes quite a bit.

> I have trouble convincing myself to give Autodesk $50/month and I need that software for my primary hobby.

Before I used Claude Code, I absolutely would have agreed with you, $100–$200 every month is just a ridiculous amount for any software. After using Claude Code... yeah, that's just how darn good it is!

> Imagine if we were upvoting stories about how people are getting lots of coding done easier with Google and StackOverflow.

You know, something I've thought about before (as in, before LLMs) is just how hard (impossible?) it would be for me to program without an internet connection. I'm constantly Googling stuff.

I can absolutely imagine that if I was a programmer before widespread internet use, and the internet launched with things like Google and lots of resources out of the gate... yeah, that would be revelatory! I'm not saying AI is necessarily the same, but it's something to think about.

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dangus8mo ago

And what will a $100/month barrier to do the economic mobility of aspiring software engineers?

No we are going to have a haves and haves not situation where the poor kid who wants to get a better job and get out of poverty is competing with the dude who has a $100-200/month AI subscription writing code for him.

WowfunhappyOP8mo ago

...actually, I think it's mostly good for people to learn to code without AI first. AI is really good at simple things and often can't do hard things, but humans can't learn to do the hard things unless they learn the easy things first. This is a way in which AI is not like the internet!

I do feel AI impeding my own learning in this way and it's probably the aspect I'm most concerned about.

dangus8mo ago

I’m really not talking about the learning part, I’m talking about the part where people need to be competitive in the job market.

E.g., a job interviewer in the world of AI will be asking you to perform more complex example work under the assumption that you have access to AI.

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0 pointsWowfunhappy8mo ago0 comments

> And at the bottom it’s revealed that this costs $200/month.

So, firstly, the limits on the $100/month plan are reasonably high in my experience. I do hit them, but it takes quite a bit.

> I have trouble convincing myself to give Autodesk $50/month and I need that software for my primary hobby.

> Imagine if we were upvoting stories about how people are getting lots of coding done easier with Google and StackOverflow.

You know, something I've thought about before (as in, before LLMs) is just how hard (impossible?) it would be for me to program without an internet connection. I'm constantly Googling stuff.

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dangus8mo ago

And what will a $100/month barrier to do the economic mobility of aspiring software engineers?

WowfunhappyOP8mo ago

I do feel AI impeding my own learning in this way and it's probably the aspect I'm most concerned about.

dangus8mo ago

I’m really not talking about the learning part, I’m talking about the part where people need to be competitive in the job market.

E.g., a job interviewer in the world of AI will be asking you to perform more complex example work under the assumption that you have access to AI.

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