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A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code
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Re: A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code
#202Earlier quoted context omitted.
> They rely on ChatGPT to answer their questions instead of taking time to read the documentation or a simple web search. Documentation is not written with answers in mind. Every little project wants me to be an expert in their solution. They want to share with me the theory behind their decisions. I need an answer now. Web search no longer provides useful information within the first few results. Instead, I get cont…
Ah yes, LLM is very good at giving me information from documentation that was out of date 15 years ago instead of using the documentation from 2025.
it's been enormously useful for my Qt3 work though, it really understands it well.
Re: A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code
#203Does anyone feel like the biggest selling point of LLMs so far is basically for programmers? Feels like most of the products that look like could generate revenue are for programmers. While you can see them as a productivity enhancing tool, in times of tight budgets, they can be useful to lay off more programmers because a single one is now way more productive than pre-LLM. I feel that LLMs will increase the barrier…
It can backfire though.
There is some mental overhead switching projects. Meaning even if a developer is more efficient per project he wont get more money (usually less actually) while increasing mental load (more projects, more managers, more requirements, etc).
Will be interesting to watch
Re: A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code
#204Does anyone feel like the biggest selling point of LLMs so far is basically for programmers? Feels like most of the products that look like could generate revenue are for programmers. While you can see them as a productivity enhancing tool, in times of tight budgets, they can be useful to lay off more programmers because a single one is now way more productive than pre-LLM. I feel that LLMs will increase the barrier…
LLMs are a solution in search of a problem.
The first problem they have gained traction on is programming auto complete, and it is useful.
Generating summaries, pretty marginal benefit (personally I find it useless). Writing emails, quicker just to type "FYI" and press send than instruct the ai. More problems that needed solving will emerge, but it will take time.
Re: A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code
#205Earlier quoted context omitted.
I see worrying trends in my office. Developers (often juniors) use LLM code without taking time to verify it. This leads to bugs and they can't fix it because they don't understand the code. Some senior developers also trust the tool to generate a function, and don't take the time to review it and catch the edge cases that the tool missed. They rely on ChatGPT to answer their questions instead of taking time to read…
Same could be said for every language abstraction or systems layer change. When we stopped programming kernel modules and actually found a workable interface it opened the door to so many more developers. I'm sure at the time there was skepticism because people didn't understand the internals of the kernel. That's not the point. The point is to raise the level of abstraction to open the door, increase productivity an…
No, but you can understand them if given time. And you can rely on them to be some degree of reliable approaching 100% (and when they fail it will likely be in a consistent way you can understand with sufficient time, and likely fix).
LLMs don’t have these properties. Randomness makes for a poor abstraction layer. We invent tools because humans suffer from this issue too.
Re: A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code
#206Does anyone feel like the biggest selling point of LLMs so far is basically for programmers? Feels like most of the products that look like could generate revenue are for programmers. While you can see them as a productivity enhancing tool, in times of tight budgets, they can be useful to lay off more programmers because a single one is now way more productive than pre-LLM. I feel that LLMs will increase the barrier…
LLMs are a solution in search of a problem. The first problem they have gained traction on is programming auto complete, and it is useful. Generating summaries, pretty marginal benefit (personally I find it useless). Writing emails, quicker just to type "FYI" and press send than instruct the ai. More problems that needed solving will emerge, but it will take time.
Deep research has saved me weeks worth of man hours in the last couple of months…
Re: A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code
#207Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I don't get why making engineers more productive would decrease their salaries. It should be the reverse. You need less engineers to do the same, demand gets lower, offer remains as high.
But they're more productive. Your assumption is there is a fixed amount of engineering work to do so you need to hire fewer programmers, which is untrue. Every organization I worked at could have invested a lot more in engineering, be-it infrastructure, analytics, automation, etc. Even if there were a fixed amount of work to do and we're already near that max amount, salaries still wouldn't necessarily go down. Again…
In the real world experiment we're living through you're being proven wrong. Tech companies have been laying off engineers continuously for several years now and wages are down.
Re: A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code
#208I'm curious whether anyone's actually using Claude code successfully. I tried it on release and found it negative value for tasks other than spinning up generic web projects. For existing codebases of even a moderate size, it burns through cash to write code that is always slightly wrong and requires more tuning than writing it myself.
Just to throw my experience in, it's been _wildly_ effective. Example; I'm wrapping up, right now, an updated fork of the PHP extension `phpredis` because Redis 8 recently was released with support for a new data type, Vector Set but the phpredis extension (which is far more performant that non-extension redis libraries for PHP) doesn't support the new vector-related commands. I forked the extension repo, which is in…
Most interesting !
Would you mind sharing the prompt and the resulting CLAUDE.md file ?
Thx !
Re: A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code
#209Does anyone feel like the biggest selling point of LLMs so far is basically for programmers? Feels like most of the products that look like could generate revenue are for programmers. While you can see them as a productivity enhancing tool, in times of tight budgets, they can be useful to lay off more programmers because a single one is now way more productive than pre-LLM. I feel that LLMs will increase the barrier…
Shift feels real. LLMs don't replace devs, but they do compress the value curve. The top 10% get even more leverage, and the bottom 50% become harder to justify. What worries me isn't layoffs but that entry-level roles become rare, and juniors stop building real intuition because the LLM handles all the hard thinking. You get surface-level productivity but long-term skill rot.
You could say the same sort of thing about compilers, or higher-level languages versus lower-level languages.
That's not to say that you're wrong. Most people who use those things don't have a very good idea of what's going on in the next layer down. But it's not new.
Re: A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code
#210Earlier quoted context omitted.
When a company lays off a chunk of the workforce because the increased productivity due to LLMs means they don't need as many people, how is it an enabler for the laid off people. What happens when most companies do this? During the 10s, every dev out there was screaming "everyone should learn to code and get a job coding". During the 20s, many devs are being laid off. For a field full of self-professed smart and log…
> What happens when most companies do this? It also means it becomes easier to start new company and solve a problem for people.
People get laid off when money is expensive. When money is expensive, running companies is harder. Starting a new company is even harder. Without capital, all you can offer is some words, a broken demo of your v1 prototype and some sweet words. You can't start a company with just that when money is expensive.