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My salary hasn't been increased to pay for this extra helpfullness.
Then use the cheap/free plans?
My time is too valuable to waste it trying to convince AI models to actually work.
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And can 'most people' even afford most of these services? Having seen some people's spend, even a $200/month plan has me questioning why I'd spend $200/month on Anthropic products when $200/month would be a substantial chunk of my housing as a blue-collar class IT worker just to survive.
You don't need a $200/mo plan, that's for people chewing through Opus tokens with multiple instances of Claude Code going in parallel. My impression is that most people just use the free ChatGPT tier, or $20/mo at most.
For coding or talking to it? $20 is ok to chat I guess. $100 is minimum if you do this for a job.
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What value do they get that both couldn't be done before and outweighs the costs?
Personalized learning. Some people on the US were paying over six figures to be educated and now they can do it at a much better quality for free.
College was never about learning it was about signaling. I get two resumes on my desk, one went to Harvard, one learned about stuff on ChatGPT. Which has a higher likelihood of being a success?
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#246I can't wait for China to start shipping hardware. I will vote with my wallet and have a chinese GPU, RAM and device. Hell, I would be using a Xiaomi phone right this second if this government didn't block it.
Not going to happen. Chinese RAM/GPU will be sold exclusively to Chinese market.
Why though?
If production can reach high enough levels, why not sell overseas?
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You don't need a $200/mo plan, that's for people chewing through Opus tokens with multiple instances of Claude Code going in parallel. My impression is that most people just use the free ChatGPT tier, or $20/mo at most.
For coding or talking to it? $20 is ok to chat I guess. $100 is minimum if you do this for a job.
If you’re writing software professionally, does the “can’t afford to pay for Claude code” they were talking about apply?
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> This is the system working. Something one could say about a high fever being a sign of the immune system working. There are obvious temporary and permanent risks to how the system works, and there are limits beyond which everything simply breaks down. It's best not to have a fever at all.
> It's best not to have a fever at all. Well put. Indeed non-free market solutions typically rely on some impossible conditions, in your comparison that would be "just don't get sick". But people will get sick. You can't just "not have a fever at all".
> "just don't get sick". But people will get sick. You can't just "not have a fever at all".
PPE, quarantining and other containment measures exist to broadly prevent sickness, but I imagine not in a universe that is about the free market at all costs, to strain the allegory further. If people keep getting sick with a recognizable pattern, someone ought to look into that, and prevent future outbreaks.
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You don't need AGI. If AI progress stopped right now, LLMs would still be amazing and extremely useful technology. It already makes life for many much easier. But it's easy to miss it when you are entombed in anti-AI bubble. But I've got something that may placate your fears - remember that horses did not vote.
It’s certainly easier to have a computer do all the thinking for you.
it definitely is if you were stupid to begin with
LLMs are a weird phenomenon. as always as of late, the sci-fi predictions are outdone by reality. Idiocracy seems cute.