Comment by frognumber
1 day ago
My bill for LLMs is going up over time. The more capable, higher-context models dramatically increase my productivity.
The spend prices most of the developing world out -- an programmer earning $10k per year can't pay for a $200/month Claude Max subscription..
And it does better than $6k-$10k programmers in Africa, India, and Asia.
It's the mainframe era all over again, where access to computing is gated by $$$.
> The spend prices most of the developing world out -- an programmer earning $10k per year can't pay for a $200/month Claude Max subscription..
No, but a computer earning $10k per year can probably afford a $200 used ThinkPad, install Linux on it, build code that helps someone, rent a cheap server from a good cloud provider, advertise their new SaaS on HN, and have it start pulling in enough revenue to pay for a $200 Claude Max subscription.
> It's the mainframe era all over again, where access to computing is gated by $$$.
It's still the internet era, where access to $$$ is gated by computing skill :)