points by leptons 2 days ago | 0 comments
It's going to be funny when AI soon costs 4x or more than it does now, and that non-developer CTO can't understand the slop codebase the AI created.
[–] selcuka 2 days ago
[–] fn-mote 2 days ago
I also hope that rising costs return software dev to an elite, lucrative career. I’m not making my 10 years plan based on that theory, though.
Watch what the open weight models can do. Once they can manage your codebase, you’re safe from gouging.
[–] jan_m_savage 2 days ago
But there still remains the possibility of error/hallucination. Do you bet on a future where AI will never make any mistakes whatsoever?
I am often told humans make mistakes, too. But this is an elementary logical fallacy because the type, frequency and severity of the problems is never the same.
Also, humans are more likely to do as told, whereas AI often takes liberties (i compiled a book from a github repo and it did things on its own in the book though i had explicitly forbidden that).
What exactly will cause that? Hardware costs are (generally) going down, and open weight models are getting smarter. The subsidised subscription prices will go away, sure, but I don't see the average token getting more expensive.