Comment by torginus
2 days ago
Wonder if that means if I knock out an app using a Claude Code sub in an afternoon, that would've taken me a week previously, and the result is better than what I could've done, does that mean that gross productivity went down?
- I didn't make money, since I got paid for my time
- Anthropic didn't make money, since the amount I paid them for AI is tiny
This sounds wrong to me.
If the same amount of people bought your app at the same rate as if you hand-written it, then no. In fact your productivity would have grown 10x (half a day vs 1 work-week). The actual costs paid to Anthropic to make said app would have net-zero effect I believe (not an expert in macro economics).
Presumably, someone bought the app.