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Comment by hdjrudni

2 days ago

I think you said it. $100/mo and you're not even sure if it'll increase your productivity. Why on earth would I pay that? Do I want to flush $100 down the toilet and waste several days of my life to find out?

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nostrademons  2 days ago

You don't have to pay $100 to find out, you can do that for ~$5-20 by directly buying API credits.

I don't know for sure whether it's worth it yet. Further experimentation is needed, as well as giving it an honest shot and trying to learn the nuances of the tool. But the way I look at it - if this actually is a future career path, the net present value of its payoff is measured in the millions of dollars. It's worth spending ~$20 and a few nights of my time to figure that out, because the odds can be pretty damn low and still have the expected value pencil out. It's sorta like spending $200 on 1/4 of a Bitcoin in 2013 because I was curious about the technology - I fully expected it to be throwing money down the toilet, but it ended up being quite worth it. (I wish I'd had the same mindset when I could've bought into the Ethereum ICO at a penny or so an ETH.)