Comment by whstl
5 hours ago
Where I work:
Developers very rarely blow their limits, except when they're experimenting on purpose.
Most non-developers are out of tokens by the half of the week, and need to use usage credits for the remainder.
To me there is clearly a better target demographic for AI.
This is a very insightful dynamic.
Probably reinforces that we’ve already surpassed the frontier threshold for LLM usability in software development and can now focus on cost and personalization. To make a comparison, no one is making a better machine vision app for hot dog classification - we hit diminishing returns 10 years ago on that front.
But also scary for both investors and the working class: AI companies want to facilitate the concentration of capital even further into the hands of the ownership class. Will they succeed?