Comment by jimbokun
1 month ago
I’m getting a similar sense from many of the AI “success” stories we’ve been hearing. There’s amazement about how many lines of code the AI produces in a short amount of time.
But not so much about maintaining and debugging all those lines of code once they’re created.
But the code runs great, over a hundred transactions per minute! All on just a $750 a day AWS instance! Saved so much money on those expensive developers! /s
Math left as an exercise for the reader.
Well 750 a day times 365 comes out to 275k, which is still lower than a couple of Bay Area devs' salaries.
That being said, I've found AI to be quite powerful given that I already know what infra I'm planning to use and restricting it to use only those tools and services.