Comment by simonw

19 days ago

Yeah I'm going to update my piece to talk more about that.

Edit: here's that section: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/7/software-factory/#wait-...

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tylervigen  18 days ago

I don't understand. Are you suggesting that the proper volume of agent work is achieved with the $200/month subscription, or that $30,000/month ($1,000/day) of tokens is necessary? I think there is a big difference between $200 and $30,000.

  • simonw  18 days ago

    I'd be disappointed if it turned out you needed to spend $20,000/month to implement the interesting ideas from the software factory concept.

    My hunch is you can get most of the value for a lot less of the spend.

    • swordsith  18 days ago

      Used ~1-3% of my cursor sub with gemini flash last night, made a personal image hosting front-end hosted with python to use from my phone with Tailscale. Took all of maybe the better part of a hour and a few prompts saying 'add this thing or change this thing I don't like.' made it a PWA and its like an app on my phone now. It feels to me a lot of this is productivity theater. If the work is there to be done, it will be done.